YANGON, tribe 23 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

YANGON, tribe 23 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH cites ON SUU KYI'S HEALTH)

Several analysts in Myanmar believe democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who the country's junta has held incommunicado since May 30 may be sent to one's home after she recovers from uterine surgery performed at a Yangon hospital last week, they said Tuesday.

Rampant speculation among politicians, diplomats and reporters is that Myanmar's ruling generals will have to crush to local and international squeezing to return the Nobel peace laureate to her family circle in Yangon.

still the pundits also believe she will be kept in subordination to tight restrictions on her personal changes and in her ability to befitting with supporters and outside envoys

Several said that with the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and on the same level the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) demanding Suu Kyi's release, the junta faces the dilemma of having little choice yet to let her go hearth and yet coming up with a face-saving way to allow her to do that.

''It would be a practical, face-saving compromise to place her subordinate to house arrest, with access to her controll from the government as in the previous house arrests,'' single analyst said.

Suu Kyi's detention, since what the generals claim was a ''clash'' between Suu Kyi and pro-junta supporters onward May 30 in northern Myanmar, has drawn widespread condemnation, greatest in quantity notably from ASEAN, the 10-member southeast Asia form into groups of which Myanmar itself is member.

ASEAN, which clusters Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar, has impaired its long-standing taboo against criticizing a member's internal affairs through the whole extent of the Suu Kyi detention.

Indonesia, which will armed force the ASEAN leaders' summit in Bali nearest month, has sent former Foreign Minister Ali Alatas to Yangon to goad the generals to free Suu Kyi before the summit.

Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, according to reports from Jakarta, is determined to preclude the Suu Kyi issue from overshadowing the regional leaders' meeting in Bali, where terrorism, economic cooperation and ASEAN integration are suppos to take top billing.

if it were not that Alatas, who is in Yangon, has for a like reason far been denied permission to come together with the detained democracy leader and has further to get a firm commitment from the junta to clear Suu Kyi.

He met with junta Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt for an hour Monday, diplomatic sources said, further no details of talks were released.

onward Tuesday, he met with junta chief Sr Gen Than Shwe for 45 minutes, an Indonesian embassy official said.

Later, at his inn Alatas simply told reporters, ''I have single in kind more meeting scheduled with the agent foreign minister. I will come together the press (Wednesday).''

Asked if he will be meeting Suu Kyi, he replied no other than ''No. No I am not.''

Until being taken to hospital last Wednesday, Suu Kyi had been held incommunicado at an undisclosed location in Yangon since the May 30 incident.

single U.N. special envoy Razali Ismail and officials in Yangon of the International Committee for the R Cros were allowed to visit Suu Kyi during her detention.

Suu Kyi's personal physician Tin Myo Win told diplomats later Tuesday that the Nobel laureate was in dutiful condition, adding, ''I am happy the biopsy issue was negative. There was no malignancy.'' Suu Kyi's surgery was for a uterine problem

The physician said Suu Kyi's ''general condition is okay, still we cannot yet fix a date for her discharge from hospital. Since she has no febrile disease or pain, we assume that the incision is healing well. I will decide when she should be discharged from the hospital.''

Asked to where she would discharged, the doctor replied, ''I cannot say where she will be taken, unless I have asked the authorities to restrain her very close to me thus that I can visit her daily.''

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