U.N. Aid Aircraft Reach Burma, Where Storm Toll Steadily Rises

BANGKOK, May 8 -- Two U.N. transport planes loaded with cyclone relief supplies landed in Burma on Thursday, as international leaders heightened pressure on the country's secretive military government to fully embrace foreign help. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon tried unsuccessfully to telephone...
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Amy Kazmin and Colum Lynch

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