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...approach. Their logic echoes that of the recently-disbanded Senior Gift Plus. The group claims that Harvard’s investment in Unocal, an oil and gas company, is unethical and hypocritical. By conducting business in Burma, BAM argues, Unocal contributes to the human rights violations of the Burmese junta, which includes systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and the stifling of political dissent. Thus, Harvard is guilty by association...
...while we sympathize strongly with BAM’s concerns—the actions of the Burmese junta are deplorable and efforts to dismantle the regime should be pursued—we believe that their calls for divestment are misguided; they should be focusing on other means to achieve their goal...
...whom he had a few days earlier ordered detained on charges of plotting to use violence "against democratic institutions and people." Authorities fear that the bombing campaign is the work of right-wing extremists who are unhappy about the government's trial of nine former members of the military junta for human rights violations. Moreover, Alfonsín's ruling Radical Party faces sensitive congressional elections on Nov. 3. Under the circumstances, the government evidently decided not to risk having the vote marred by further violence. GREECE "The Country Paralyzed...
...consortium began work on a natural gas pipeline in Burma, called Myanmar by the military junta that took control in 1988 and disregarded the results of a subsequent democratic election...
...Burma spared? The closeted nation's military rulers have a history of covering up natural disasters, including a 1984 fire that all but destroyed the city of Mandalay. So when the junta announced in the wake of December's tsunami that fewer than 100 people died in the disaster, international aid groups were highly suspicious. Last Monday, the U.N.'s World Food Programme speculated that hundreds of Burmese fishermen had probably been killed by the waves, and that 30,000 people had likely been left homeless. Yet as the week wore on and the official death toll held, a startling...