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Virginia’s senior Senator Jim Webb, a fmr. Secretary of the Navy, has secured the release of an American, John Yettaw, held in Myanmar by the ruling junta.
Mr. Yettaw’s “crime” was visiting the home of democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi;...
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