Activist Proposes Deal to End Standoff

Her health worsening, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi offered to end her roadside standoff with Myanmar’s military regime if jailed members of her political party are freed. Suu Kyi’s health was “failing” nine days into the standoff, but she was in “high spirits,” according to a statement released in Yangon, the capital, by her National League for Democracy. The statement quoted the opposition leader’s personal physicians as saying that her eyes were turning yellow and that she was suffering from low blood pressure. Suu Kyi, 53, is being prevented from traveling freely within Myanmar, formerly called Burma.