Tough at the Top
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Tough at the Top


By Shawn L. Nance/Rangoon FEBRUARY, 2005 - VOLUME 13 NO.2


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Unlike Soe Win, the other three have appeared almost daily in the New Light of Myanmar.

 

Maybe the outcome of the swirling morass of speculation is in the stars. In Burma, prophecies carry a lot of weight. And these have been busy times for the country’s soothsayers. One popular astrologer in downtown Rangoon predicts “big changes” in April, as he strokes his beard and draws pensively on a cigarette.

 

Looking around the room, perhaps to make sure nobody can hear him, he adds: “And much bloodshed.”


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