"David Oliver Abel" is a retired Brigadier General in the Myanmar Army and a former Cabinet of Burma/cabinet minister, posts in the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development. He attended the British Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) from 1952 to 1955. He was considered the country's economic czar throughout the 1990s. Abel retired from the State Peace and Development Council and vacated his position as the Minister of the Chairman's Office on 25 August 2003.

He is a Roman Catholic of Anglo-Burmese/Anglo-Burman heritage. Abel's father is an Catholic Church in India/Indian Catholic, but he does have some Jewish ancestry.

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I think the division race will come down to the final week.

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It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like it was fixing to come in the back door.

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We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the girls reacted well and continued to play hard. They didn't get down on themselves.

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