SHE WILL NEVER GIVE INTO THIS MOST

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Subject: SHE WILL NEVER GIVE INTO THIS MOST EVIL FORM OF BLACKMAIL!!!

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 "SHE WILL NEVER GIVE INTO THIS MOST EVIL FORM OF BLACKMAIL !!!"
					(Dr. Michael Aris, 26 Aug. 96)
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 Burmese Opposition Leader, US Ambassador to Japan 
	Honored by Democratic Group 
 By David Briscoe = Associated Press Writer=

   CHICAGO (AP) _ The image and voice of Burmese opposition leader
	Aung San Suu Kyi and an impassioned plea from her British husband
	for freedom in the Southeast Asian country brought standing
	ovations in a hall thousands of miles from the country she will not
	leave.

	Just as the Democratic Party's nominating convention was getting
	underway across town Monday, more than 700 diplomats, foreign
	officials and Democratic leaders gathered to honor Nobel Peace
	Prize winner Suu Kyi and former Vice President Walter Mondale with
	the annual W. Averell Harriman Democracy Awards.
   
	``At this moment, we in the movement for democracy are facing a
	lot of difficulties,'' Suu Kyi said in a videotape made for the
	awards ceremony. ``The State Law and Order Restoration council of
	Burma, the military regime which promised to lead Burma to
	multiparty democracy, is doing everything it can to crush the
	movement for democracy.''
   
	Suu Kyi, whose husband, Michael Aris, accepted the crystal globe
	award for her, was released from six years of house arrest last
	year and has been speaking to rallies of supporters each weekend
	outside her home.
   
	Aris said his wife ``stands at the sharpest end of this ruthless
	campaign to destroy the struggle for freedom in Burma.'' He said he
	has not been allowed to visit her since last December. Suu Kyi
	refuses to leave Burma for fear she would not be allowed to return.
   	Aris said the regime has been trying to pressure his wife into
	submission by arresting friends and members of her National League
	for Democracy. During the weekend in Rangoon, Suu Kyi denounced a
	new wave of arrests, and a senior military leader pledged to crush
	her movement.
   
	``SHE WILL NEVER GIVE INTO THIS MOST EVIL FORM OF BLACKMAIL,''
	Aris said, appealing for an early end to repression in Burma.

	Mondale, in a brief speech accepting the award, praised Suu Kyi
	and rejected the idea perpetrated by anti-democratic forces in Asia
	that the region is not suited for democracy because of cultural
	differences with Western countries.
   	Mondale, currently U.S. ambassador to Japan, said Suu Kyi
	``symbolizes courage for human rights and democracy.''
   	Mondale told reporters he was not attending the Democratic
	convention and that it is the first he'll miss since 1960. He
	served as vice president to President Carter, who also has said he
	will not attend the convention, although he said he fully supports
	President Clinton's re-election.
   	The Harriman award is named for the former multi-millionaire
	U.S. diplomat and New York governor, are given annually by the
	National Democratic Institute, an arm of the Democratic Party.
   
271500 Aug GMT