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Klew 3  | May 15, 2008

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but both President Bush and the U.N. chief strongly criticized the military junta over its response to the deepening crisis.Even as the deat...
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