Thinking About a Round-Trip Ticket from Myanmar HONG KONG - Does Daw Aung San Suu Kyi dare travel abroad yet? Would her departure create a flashpoint for reactionary generals to roll back recent reforms in Myanmar and block her return? And if she does take the risk, where will she go first? For most world leaders, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is certainly the No. 1 "get" right now - the most prized guest for a state visit of historic proportions. David Cameron, the British prime minister, recently invited her to visit Britain in June. Myanmar's biggest and most influential neighbors, India and China, also have reportedly asked her to come. Traveling abroad is clearly on her mind. Last month, in a video message to students at Hong Kong University, she said, "I hope in the near future it will be possible for me to travel out of Burma, and that then I will be able to come to you and be part of your campus life, for perhaps just a very short period." Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who turns 67 in June, has not been out of Myanmar since 1988, when the former British colony was still known as Burma. She came back from a hurried trip to Britain in 1988 - her mother had had a stroke - and she hasn't left ever since. The former military regime in Myanmar repeatedly offered to let her travel. As the leader of the pro-democracy opposition, and with all the political clout she had accumulated as the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the generals just wanted to be rid of her. But Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi stayed put, even in 1999 as her husband, the British scholar Michael Aris, was suffering through the end stages of prostate cancer in Oxford. When military officers went to her home in Yangon to present the government's offer to let her travel to Britain to be with Mr. Aris in his final days, she showed them the door. All along, she was afraid she would be barred from returning. But now, as a new government under President Then Sein rolls out a series of liberalizing reforms, the political landscape has changed. The indefatigable "Mother Suu" has won a seat in Parliament, for one thing. Britain, the United States and Australia have begun to ease an array of sanctions against the country and its senior leaders. The foreign ministers from the European Union will meet next week to consider similar relaxations. In a press gathering last week on the steps of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's home, Mr. Cameron said to her, referring to the duplicity of the former regime: "You wrote that they would roll out the red carpet all the way to the airplane and put you on to it - but never let you return." Mr. Cameron then publicly invited her to London and "to see your beloved Oxford in June." "I think it is a sign, if we're able to do this, of huge progress, that you will be able to leave your country, to return to your country, and to continue your work as a member of Parliament," Mr. Cameron said. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi replied: "Two years ago, I would have said: "Thank you for the invitation, but sorry." Now I am able to say: "Well, perhaps." And that's great progress. Rendezvous suspects that Mr. Cameron's repeated mention of a June visit might be a strategic feint - that he has secretly asked Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to light the Olympic cauldron at the Summer Olympics in London. Wednesday marks the 100-day countdown to the opening ceremonies on July 27. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi could be an inspired choice, although an unusual one, since Olympic organizing committees have always selected people from their own nation - current or former Olympians, exemplary civilians, a beloved royal or adorable schoolchildren. As thoroughly Burmese as she is, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi also is a global figure now, a citizen of the larger world, perhaps on the order of a Gandhi or a Mandela. Plus, she has deep connections to Britain. She earned her undergraduate degree from Oxford, where she met Mr. Aris. They married in London and she later earned a Ph.D. there, at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Alexander, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's elder son, was born in London, and Kim, the younger son, was born in Oxford. The brothers, reportedly stripped of their Burmese citizenship by the former junta, both live in England. So, as we take our marks for the 100-day dash to London, here's a question for Rendezvous readers: Who would you pick to light the cauldron to open the Games, and why? Queen Elizabeth, perhaps? The decathlete Daley Thompson? Richard Branson? JK Rowling? Elton John? Or maybe a double act: The rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, for example? Derek Redmond and his father Jim? Posh and Becks? Paul and Ringo? Wills and Kate?