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Oklahoma Daily  | May 11, 2008

YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale.Five days after the storm, the junta continued to stall on visas for U.N. teams ...
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