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Published 11/13/2008 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday added the names of 26 people and 17 companies linked to Myanmar's military government to its list of accused traffickers of opium, the raw material of heroin, and other drugs.
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