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Stimulant Tablets Seized in Myanmar Border Town

               Xinhua
               19-JAN-98

               YANGON (Jan. 20) XINHUA - A total of 20,000 amphetamine
tablets,
               a kind of stimulant narcotic drug, was seized by the
Myanmar
               authorities last week in Tachilek, a border town in the
country's Shan
               state opposite to Thailand, official newspaper The New
Light of
               Myanmar reported Tuesday. 

               The stimulant tablets, together with some proceeds from
drug
               trafficking business, were confiscated from eight local
residents in the
               township by local Myanmar Defense Services Intelligence
unit, army
               battalion, police force and anti-drug squad on January
14-16. 

               Action is being taken against the drug traffickers, the
report said. 

               According to official statistics, Myanmar seized over 5
million stimulant
               tablets in the country in 1997.