The World - News from July 30, 1989

A military tribunal in Myanmar, formerly Burma, sentenced seven youths to five-year prison terms for staging anti-government demonstrations, a government newspaper said. Police arrested the youths for shouting slogans July 17 at a Buddhist temple in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, during a religious holiday, the Working People’s Daily said. In a related development, a spokesman for the main opposition party said as many as 1,500 people have been arrested since early July. Early last week, another military tribunal ordered the death sentence for three young members of the League for Democracy who were convicted of planting a package bomb that killed two people at a government oil refinery July 7.