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Bangkok Post 7/27/98



           SUU KYI STANDOFF ENTERS THIRD DAY
 
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's colleagues expressed hope yesterday that
a compromise would be reached with Burma's military to end a standoff on a
highway outside of Rangoon that has entered its third day. " We hope that
it will end today," said Tin Oo, Vice chairman of the National League for
Democracy, of which Mrs Suu Kyi is general secretary.
 As of mid-morning yesterday, Mrs Suu Kyi, a colleague and two drivers were
still stuck in her white sedan about 51 kilometers west of Rangoon.
 The military stopped her there Friday morning as she was attempting to
travel to Bassein,160 km west of the capital, to meet some of her party
members.
 Mrs Suu Kyi has now spent two nights in the car surrounded by soldiers
,sandbags and barbed wire baricades put there by the government to prevent
her from driving on.-AP