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"Doubts
Over Anti-Pipeline Claims"
26 November 1996
The Bangkok Post
"Burma's Yadana pipeline project that will supply nsatural gas to Thailand
has been fraught with controversy. Boonsong Kositchotethana was recently
at the pipeline site in Mon state, southeast Burma, to follow up some
of the accusations made against the scheme."
The
Very Long Arm of the Law: Is the world ready for 7,284 secretaries of
state?
14 October 1996
U.S.News & World Report, Kevin Whitelaw
"The city council of Madison, Wis., makes the whole world its business.
A pioneer in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, the city
council has most recently taken on human rights abuses in Myanmar (Burma).
In the past, the council has taken positions on issues in places like
El Salvador and Haiti; it even came close to a resolution urging local
police not to help track down deserters from the armed forces during
the gulf war. "This city isn't a city unto itself," declares former
City Alderperson Bert Zipperer, who says the resolutions represent the
"collective conscience" of the town. "We deserve a say in how we will
deal with other parts of the world."
"Sanctions:
An Ineffective Tool of Diplomacy"
Fall 1996
Houston Business Review, Ken R. LeSeur
"There are no less then 30 countries where the US is seeking to limit
commercial activity. Most of these are US unilateral sanctions, which
means the US is imposing economic sanctions on the offending country
without the support of other countries. When this occurs, business continues
in these countries -- with, or without us -- and as the international
city of the South, Houston should be concerned."
Other Nations Profit: Business
Chafes At Our Trade Sanctions
15 September 1996
Wilmington Star-News, Louis Uchitelle
"Trade sanctions have become ever more difficult to enforce in the world's
huge and fluid marketplace, but the United States is invoking them with
increasing frequency anyway. It is even adding an onerous new twist:
punishing foreign companies for breaching US sanctions."
"Why Unocal Ignores Calls For Myanmar Sanctions"
13 August 1996
Asia Times, Interview
In an interview with Asia Times, John Imle, Jr. (President of Unocal
Corporation) outlines why sanctions will not hurt Myanmar, his company's
role in Myanmar, and the future of US trade sanctions. |
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