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Princeton directed its fund managers to look into its investments in an Indian subsidiary tied to ABB, but eventually determined that the subsidiary had no part in ABB??€™s Sudan activities...
...DIED. Abb?? Pierre, 94, French Catholic priest who stubbornly championed the homeless in France and abroad; in Paris. In 1954 he won national attention after coming across a woman who had frozen to death on a Paris street, her eviction papers in hand. His frantic cry on the radio--"Friends! Help!"--prompted volunteers to donate blankets for other homeless people and pressured the government to offer some 12,000 units of housing...
Sinopec is currently constructing a $65.5 million pipeline in Sudan that could substantially boost the regime’s oil export revenues. ABB??€™s contracts in Sudan total to more than $36 million, and the company won a contract last year to improve the country’s power grid. Tatneft allegedly entered an oil-for-weapons swap with the Sudanese government in 2002, although initial reports of the deal have not been confirmed. Tatneft officials did not return repeated requests for comment from the Crimson...
Before these charges the Abb?? sat immobile, only exclaiming now and then: "That is a frightful lie!" He did not, however, explain away the testimony of his neighbors...
...attack upon him which provoked the trial was apparently made at the instigation of Mme. Mesmin, who feared and hated him as a more powerful sorcerer than herself. Last week, the Court awarded the significantly small damages of 5,000 francs ($200) to the Abb?? des Noyers, sentenced the two convicted males to eight months' imprisonment, imprisoned their eight female accomplices for six months and assessed upon them costs and a fine of 100 francs ($4) each. Since several of the defendants were of more than modest wealth, and since Mme. Mesmin was not ousted from her sanctum at Bordeaux...