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Myanmar allows U.S. aid to arrive


BANGKOK: The authorities in Myanmar allowed a United States military aircraft to land with relief supplies Monday, crossing a barrier that has prevented the delivery of aid to more than a million victims of the May 3 cyclone.


A group of top officials greeted the unarmed C-130 transport plane in an extraordinary scene of cooperation between two nations whose only relations in recent years have been acrimonious.


Published: May 12, 2008