Burma Loosens Grip on Workers
The Burmese government, bowing to opposition demands, announced today that all members of the armed forces and all civil servants could quit the ruling party in a move it said would ensure free multiparty elections.
The government said that all 180,000 members of the armed forces and all civil servants are no longer required to be members of the Burma Socialist Program Party. Official Radio Rangoon said the Council of State, the top government body, took the decision to ensure that multiparty elections to be held within three months would be free.
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