BurmaNet News: September 16, 1996

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The BurmaNet News: September 16, 1996
Issue #515

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NYT: WHO'S PUNISHING WHOM? TRADE BANS...
NATION: BOYCOTT BURMA AND HELP DEMOCRACY 
BURMANET: NEWS FROM INSIDE BURMA
KNU REPORT: THE THAI-BURMA BORDER
NATION: RIGHTS SCENE IN BURMA DISMAL, SAYS AMNESTY
XINHUA NEWS: MYANMAR OPENING MORE OVERSEAS AIR LINKS
ASAHI NEWS: JAPAN TO OPEN MORE TRADE OFFICES IN MYANMAR 
BT: PSA EYES STAKE IN YANGON MINI-CITY
FBC: STATEMENT & MEMBER LIST
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NYT: WHO'S PUNISHING WHOM? TRADE BANS...
September 12, 1996 (abridged)
by 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 American sanctions.  

    Now corporate America, usually unwilling to go against the nation's foreign
policy, is preparing a rare formal protest against the latest trend. What
worries many companies is not only the potential loss of customers in the
sanctioned countries but also the possibility of retaliation by foreign
governments and companies facing penalties under the new strategy of punishing
foreigners.

   An organization representing 500 of the nation's largest multinational
corporations, the National Foreign Trade Council, has been meeting this week on
the best ways to reverse or water down the latest sanctions. "We would like to
see a more sober consideration of the consequences," said Daniel O'Flaherty,
vice president of the council.

   "All of a sudden unilateral sanctions are in vogue again," said Timothy
Elder, Caterpillar's manager of governmental affairs, ticking off a half-dozen
new ones in the last year. "I have no notion of how much we have already lost in
sales, but we will probably crunch the numbers as we get engaged in a public
policy campaign against this type of sanction. And we will get engaged."

   The United States, as a superpower, has been the world's most frequent user
of unilateral sanctions. 

   The heyday of the unilateral sanction came in the immediate postwar years,
when the American economy was so mighty. But while sanctions against Iran in the
early 1950's brought down the nationalist Mossadegh Government, and those
against Britain and France in 1956 helped force their withdrawal from the Suez
Canal region, such actions gradually lost their effectiveness as other countries
became able to supply goods, credit, foreign aid and a marketplace for an
offending country's products.

   When sanctions were successful, they were rarely unilateral. The ones against
South Africa played an important role in ending apartheid, but mostly because
other nations followed the American lead. The American ban on sales to the
Soviet bloc of high-technology equipment used in advanced weaponry was largely
successful, but mainly because the United States was the only source of much of
this technology.

   Nevertheless, the Clinton Administration, with bipartisan Congressional
support, has made the unilateral sanction an important foreign policy tool once
again.

   "Therein is the great paradox," said Gary C. Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the
Institute for International Economics, who led the study of economic sanctions
through the decades. "While unilateral embargoes are less and less of an
effective force in an integrated world economy, American enthusiasm for them has
not diminished."

   Current or recent targets include Iran, Libya, Serbia, Cuba, China, North
Korea, Nigeria, Rwanda and Colombia. Legislation now before Congress would 
ban American investment in Myanmar, formerly Burma, because of its military
dictatorship. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fear is gone that the
Soviets could use an unpopular embargo to gain a foothold in a country like
Myanmar, many experts say. And domestic politics clearly plays a role.
"Sanctions can provide a satisfying theatrical display, yet avoid the high cost
of war," Mr. Hufbauer wrote.

   Two recent Government moves have angered American companies by taking the
unilateral embargo a step further. Recent acts passed by Congress and signed by
President Clinton have upgraded the embargoes against Cuba, Iran and Libya,
banning not only American companies from these countries, but also punishing
foreign corporations.

   Foreign companies could be kept from doing business in the United States or
with American companies if they invested more than $40 million in Iranian or

   "The new extraterritorial sanctions may be more effective," a senior
Administration official said, explaining the reason for President Clinton's
support. "If a French company has to decide between doing business with Iran or
the United States, it may prefer the United States."

   But American companies are not so sanguine. Some multinationals worry that
they may be cut off from further sales to, say, German or Turkish companies if
those companies do business in Iran or Libya. That issue came up at a recent
gathering of the National Association of Manufacturers.

   Other American companies wonder what might happen if a subsidiary abroad
somehow breaks the new laws, or foreign governments retaliate against
American-owned subsidiaries in their countries.

   "What the politicians forget," said Willard Workman, international vice
president for the United States Chamber of Commerce, "is that these foreign
companies are our customers and suppliers, or they invest in America. We are
cutting off our nose to spite our face, presenting ourselves as capricious and
unreliable."

   So far, the sanctions have had only a modest effect on American business.
Unilateral sanctions, by various estimates, have deprived the American economy
of less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the nation's annual income in recent
years. Individual corporations have refrained from publicly
estimating the lost revenue from sales and investments that they could not
engage in. Few companies, in fact, will attach their names to criticism of
sanctions intended by the Administration and Congress to halt terrorism, restore
democracy or reinforce human rights.

   "We don't lobby against the embargoes, because we understand there are
public-policy reasons that go above and beyond the corporate interest to the
national interest," said Mark Greenberg, an Allied Signal vice president.

   Rather than lobby themselves, corporations are turning to their trade
associations. The Chamber of Commerce is outspoken. Officials at the National
Association of Manufacturers say the organization is "formulating a strategy for
dealing with the proliferation of sanctions." President Clinton's Export
Council, made up of corporate executives acting as an advisory group, has warned
that the costs to the United States in lost business "are clearly quite large."

   The National Foreign Trade Council is taking the lead in lobbying against
unilateral economic sanctions. Meetings are now in progress to develop a
strategy, Mr. O'Flaherty said, and there should be a public announcement soon.

   Caterpillar, among the nation's half-dozen largest exporters, is speaking out
on its own, rather bluntly. "It is clear the world is not a more dangerous place
than in the mid-80's," Mr. Elder said. "But policy makers have kind of decided
they like unilateral sanctions. It is a quick and easy thing to do."

   Caterpillar's map spotlights not only those countries subject to sanctions
but also those denied export aid from the Export-Import Bank and similar help
from other agencies. Donald V. Fites, Caterpillar's chairman, in an
as-yet-unpublished opinion article, wrote of unilateral sanctions: "The real
pressure is on the U.S. companies that not only must cede American jobs to
foreign firms, but also risk being branded in other markets as unreliable
suppliers."

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NATION: BOYCOTT BURMA AND HELP DEMOCRACY 
September 13, 1996

Aung San Suu Kyi's advice to boycott the campaign for Visit
Myanamr year should be needed, argues Christina Fink.

Joe Cummings' opinion article  "Why Tourism Helps Democracy  in
Burma" (The Nation, Sept 9) is full of factual errors. I too have 
been to Burma, and I follow the political and economic situation
in the country very closely.

The average person in Burma is not better off in 1996 than they
were in 985. It is true that the military elite and their
associates are doing better, but the vast majority are in worse
shape than before. The United States embassy economic report,
issued in July 1996, documents the extent to which the economy is
faltering. One of he reasons why there are now hundreds of
thousands of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand is because they
cannot survive in Burma. As Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the
pro-democracy movement in Burma, has written, any Burmese can no
longer afford three plates of boiled rice a day, let al one 
meat, fruit or medicine.

Human rights abuses have not decreased in the face of mounting
tourism. If anything, the military junta, known as the State Law
and Order Restoration Council or Slorc, has demanded more forced
labour, ordered ore forced relocations, and extorted  are taxes.

In the early 1990s, a large number of residents of Pagan were
forced to move to satellite towns outside the city because of
tourism. Not only did Slorc want to beautify the ancient temple
filed town but they also hoped to minimise contact between the
local population and tourists.

Slorc has initiated urban beautification projects in several
towns. Residents along the main thoroughfares have been ordered
to tear down their shops and homes to widen the roads. Many
buildings have been cut in half, and those that remain must rise
up two stories and be freshly painted or the owners have to
demolish them and move at their own expense. These projects which
are presently going on in Taunggyi and Moulmein, to name just two
places, are intended to impress tourists not locals.

Cummings states that tourism does not boost the use of draft
labour in Burma. Yet the Karen Human Rights Group has documented
the use of forced labour to build the Sittwe Hotel in Arakan
state. The hotel is owned by the son of the Minister of Tourism,
Lt General Kyaw Ba. The Buddha Museum in Sittwe was also built
with forced labour and local residents refer to it as the "Dukkha
Museum" of "Museum of Suffering", for this reason.

Cummings says that most tourists do not use the roads or railways
but take airplanes instead. Therefore, forced labour on roads is
not connected to tourism. In fact, many tourists (especially the
ones reading Lonely Planet guides) do travel by bus and train.
Moreover, some airports in Burma have also been built or expanded
with forced labour.

Cummings argues that Slorc will make money whether Western
tourists come or not. But as Suu Kyi has pointed out, boycotting
Visit Myanmar Year is not just about denying dollars to the
junta. It is also about denying international legitimacy to a
regime that has no legitimacy with its own people.

Interestingly enough, Slorc has done more advertising of Visit
Myanmar Year inside the country than out.

Slorc seems to be of two minds about tourism. While they want
dollars and respect, they have erected signs all over Rangoon
proclaiming "down with foreign elements" and "down with neo-
imperialists". A strange  welcomes , indeed!

Cummings wants his guidebooks to . sell, so it is not surprising
that he . would strongly oppose a tourist boycott. Likewise,
Cummings' hotel and guide contracts in Burma support tourism as
this is their main source of income.

I have met other Burmese who hop that tourists will see how the
people are suffering and return home t demand that their
governments pres sure Slorc to step down. Unfortunately, most
tourists are carefully guide along a sanitised tourist corridor
an have few opportunities to learn the truth.

Suu Kyi has not ordered tourists to boycott Burma indefinitely.
She has merely asked that people refrain from coming during
Slorc's campaign for  Visit Myanmar Year which begins this
November.
     
Suu Kyi's political party, the Nation-| al League for Democracy,
won 82  per cent of the vote in the 1990 elections,  but Slorc
has  to hand over power. Since releasing Suu Kyi from house
arrest last June, Slorc has jailed countless pro-democracy
supporters and threatened to " annihilate the NLD." So when
Cummings questions whether torurists should boycott Burma,
potential tourists must ask themselves whose advice they should
follow the military junta's or that of the democratically
-elected leader of Burma.
     
Christina Fink is the Thailand coordinator of the Burma Project
in Chiang Mai. The Burma Project is a branch of the Soros
Foundations's Open Society Institute and is based in New York.

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BURMANET: NEWS FROM INSIDE BURMA
September 14, 1996

On the border:
1) DKBA is active in the no.6 Brigade area (south of Maesod)

On 5/9/96, 40 DKBA entered Lai Khaw village on the Burmese side and stole
17000 Baht and arrested one villager,who has not been released yet.

On 6/9/96, DKBA arrested 6 men near Kan Lay village, took 6000 Baht
and released them all.
        
On 9/9/96, DKBA again entered Lai Khaw village and took 3 people including 2 
Thainationals.

2) In Maetan refugee camp on the Thai border, DKBA men without arms were 
rounded up and arrested by the Thai border police. Only 2 of the 10 men were 
arrested the others fleeing. They were sent to the local KNU, not to Thai
authorities. 
They have been allegedly killed.

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KNU REPORT: THE THAI-BURMA BORDER
September 12,1996 

Tak province. About 0200 AM the morning of the 12th of September, a group of 
80 soldiers of the Democratic Kayin Buddhist Army (DKBA) backed by the army 
of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), crossed the Moei River 
and intruded into the Kingdom of Thailand a few kilometers north of Ban 
Thasongyang,Thasongyang district. Their target is to raid and dismantle a Thai 
village which many Karen refugees take refuge there. This early dawn intrusion 
was one of the countless intrusions done by the DKBA and its supporter,the
SLORC. 
So far, the Thai forces couldn't stop those intruders from intruding their
Kingdom yet.  
Karen State, Burma.    

A confirmed report says that on the 4th of this month, the DKBA and the SLORC 
forces of battalion #18 of Burma Regiment raided Baw Tho Hta village,Papun
district 
and devoured every livestock found in the village. They even took a pair of
gold 
earrings and a gold necklace from a villager.

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NATION: RIGHTS SCENE IN BURMA DISMAL, SAYS AMNESTY
September 15, 1996

THE human rights situation in Burma has deteriorated following
the worst crackdown on the opposition led by Aung San Suu Kyi in
five years, Amnesty International said in a report.

"The human rights situation has deteriorated sharply in Burma in
the last four months," the London-based human
rights watchdog said.

"Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the latest
developments in the country, which include widespread arrests and
sentencing of prisoners of conscience," the report said.

Amnesty said the latest crackdown was the "largest wave of
repression" since hundreds of pro-democracy activists were
rounded up following the victory of Aung San Suu Kyi's National
League for Democracy (NLD) in the 1990 elections.

NLD officials say that at least 61 democracy activists are
currently being detained without charges by the military
authorities, including Aung San Suu Kyi's press secretary Aye
Win.

"These arrests are part of an increasing pattern of repression by
the State Law and Order Restoration Council [Slorc] of the NLD,"
Amnesty said, but put the number of those detained at 58. The
Slorc is the junta's official name.

Most of the activists were arrested in May as the authorities
tried to scuttle a party congress at Aung San Suu Kyi's house to
mark the sixth anniversary of the 1990 elections, which were
overturned by the military.

Since then, at least 31 democracy activists have been sentenced
to long prison terms under Burma's strict public security laws.
Included in that number was a close aide to Aung San Suu Kyi, win
Htein, who was jailed for 14 years.

Amnesty said the trials fell far short of international standards
and that political prisoners in Burma were being denied legal
representation.

"Amnesty International believes that no political prisoner
receives a fair trial in Burma," the report said.

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XINHUA NEWS: MYANMAR OPENING MORE OVERSEAS AIR LINKS
September 12, 1996
by zhang yunfei

Myanmar has been increasing air links with foreign countries in recent years
to open the door wider to the outside world and attract more foreign tourists.
"Visit Myanmar Year 96" is scheduled to start on a grand scale in mid-November
in the peak tourism season in the country.  An air link is due to be established
between Yangon and Bandar Seri Begawan of Brunei later today, bringing to nine
the number of major foreign cities linked by air with Myanmar.  The other eight
are Bangkok of Thailand, Beijing of China, Calcutta of India, Dhaka of
Bangladesh, Karachi of Pakistan, Osaka of Japan, Singapore, and Vientiane of
Laos.  

Airlines operating flights to Myanmar include Air China, Silk Air of
Singapore, Thai airways, Biman of Bangladesh, Indian Airlines, Lao aviation co.,
Pakistan International airlines, all Nippon airways of Japan and Royal Brunei
airlines.  Malaysian airlines system (mas) is scheduled to fly to Myanmar in
late November, which will be followed by Vietnam airlines and Royal air
Cambodia, after the inauguration of the "Visit Myanmar year 96." 

Other countries reportedly in negotiations with Myanmar on air links include 
Switzerland and Indonesia.  In addition to foreign airlines, Myanmar also
has its 
own international airline --Myanmar Airways International (mai) --which
brings in
visitors from Bangkok, Dhaka, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and 
Kunming in southwestern China. MAI, a joint venture between the state-run
domestic
Myanmar airways and highsonic enterprise private ltd. Of Singapore, was formed
in 1993 and operates flights with boeing 737-400 aircraft leased from the mas.
tourists will also have internal connecting flights to tourist resorts in
Myanmar, such as Mandalay, Bagan, Thandwe, Heho, Myeik, Kawthaung, Tachilek 
and Myitkyina, which are operated by another Myanmar-Singapore joint venture 
airline --air mandalay --and the domestic Myanmar airways.  Some Thai airlines 
have also been permitted to operate Dire Kengtung and Heho since the end of
1993.  
In June this year, a Myanmar private company --Myawaddy travels and tours --
launched the first chopper passenger services in Mandalay, Mogok and Muse
regions 
to facilitate foreign tourists'of its "Visit Myanmar Year 96."

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ASAHI NEWS: JAPAN TO OPEN MORE TRADE OFFICES IN MYANMAR 
September 13, 1996
by Amy Shiratori

The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) are ready to open representative offices in Yangon
(Rangoon) Oct. 1, JETRO President Noboru Hatakeyama said recently.

JETRO will assign five representatives responsible for organizing commercial
exhibitions and providing trade promotion expertise to Myanmar.

Japanese ties with the Myanmar military government will also be strengthened
with support of a study, already under way, on ways to facilitate the former
socialist Myanmar's evolution to a market-driven economy, through
participation by the Institute of Developing Economies, the research
organization of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).

The government-backed organizations plan their stepped-up activities, as the
National League for Democracy, Myanmar's main opposition party led by Nobel
laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, issued a statement that the ruling military junta
has arrested 60 pro-democracy activities since a major crackdown in May.

"Despite the human rights issue, the Japanese government has not changed its
policy (of constructive engagement through dialogue with the regime)," said
Hatakeyama.

Hatakeyama is also vice-chairman of a working group of government and
private officials supporting promotion of economic development in Myanmar,
Cambodia and Laos.  The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 
also participates in the working group.

The group is to submit a report on its policy proposals for helping
industrialization in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in a meeting of
economic ministers of ASEAN and Japan Friday in Jakarta.

The proposals will include designating specific cities or regions as
experimental areas for private-sector programs to promote market-driven
national economic policies in those countries, Hatakeyama said.

These zones include a high tech park near Hanoi and Koh Kong, on the west
coast of Cambodia.  The market economy zone in Myanmar is to be designated
later.

The proposals also call for coordinating and linking the industry and
markets of ASEAN, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Japan, according to Hatakeyama.

In the automobile sector, the proposals include harmonizing the standards
and conformance to facilitate trade, dispatching experts to Cambodia, Laos,
Myanmar and Vietnam to help develop the automobile and auto parts industry.

For the electronics industry, the proposals include helping provide
technology-sharing through seminars and development of training programs for
technicians and engineers.

The proposals include preparation of a list of problems hindering
development of the infrastructure for economic development -- railroads,
roads and aviation and sea transport, liberalization of the
telecommunications market and planning packaged tours that link the tourism
industry in the region.

Other policy proposals include helping establish commercial laws and
auditing procedures.

"The important point of the proposals is that the nations that are given
industrial assistance are being asked to meet certain conditions -- does of
discipline," Hatakeyama said.

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BT: PSA EYES STAKE IN YANGON MINI-CITY
September 14, 1996

Feasibility study on for Thai promoter's US$200m project

THE Port of Singapore Authority would take a significant stake in a project
to develop a US$200 million (S$280 million) mini-city in Myanmar if studies 
show that the project, being promoted by a Thai business group, is viable.

However, PSA is already involved in the project through consultancy work for
the Thai group, Bijoux Holdings. PSA's consultancy arm SPECS has been engaged 
by Bijoux to conduct design, engineering and construction feasibility
studies for 
the project.

A PSA spokesman in Singapore told BT that the feasibility studies should be
completed by the year-end.

"Depending on the outcome of the studies, we may even manage the project,"
added the spokesman. He did not disclose the size of PSA's potential stake.
The Bijoux project that PSA is working on envisages the development of a new
business district at Thuwunna in Yangon.

Set to be the biggest foreign investment in Myanmar real estate, it would be
an integrated mini-city with office buildings, retail and residential space,
complete 
with its own infrastructure.

To be developed on a build-operate-transfer basis, the owners would hand
over the development to the Yangon authorities after operating it for 45 years. 
Development would be in three phases over five years, with ground-breaking 
probably to take place once PSA's studies prove conclusively that it is viable.

Once it has ascertained the project's viability for its client Bijoux, PSA
would then decide on its own equity interests.

PSA, like many of Singapore's companies and government agencies, are
actively scouting for investments and work in the region.

Bijoux Holdings, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, is a major
jewellery manufacturer controlled by the Ho family from Myanmar.

Headed by U-Kuang Waing K Ho, the Ho family had engaged in a variety of
business in Myanmar before moving to Thailand in the 1960s.

Now based in Bangkok, Mr Waing K Ho's children are running the family
business which is focused on jewellery and real estate. In more recent
years, the 
Ho siblings have gone back to their roots to tap Myanmar's liberalisation. The 
family owns the Baiyoke Kandawgyi Hotel in Yangon.

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FBC: STATEMENT & MEMBER LIST
September 13, 1996

Mission Statement
The Free Burma Coalition (FBC) is an umbrella group of organizations
around the world working for freedom and democracy in Burma.

Our mission is to build a grassroots movement inspired by and modeled after
the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

Our movement stands 100% behind the leadership of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and
the National League for Democracy (NLD), whom the people have recognized as
the sole legitimate leaders of Burma.

Objectives
Our objectives are twofold:
1).  to weaken the grip of the State Law and Order Restoration Council
(SLORC) by cutting its substantial flow of foreign currency provided by
multinational corporations such as Total, Unocal, Texaco, ARCO, and PepsiCo
among others; and

2).  to strengthen the position of the democratic forces within Burma by
building up an international movement calling for the end of totalitarian
rule under SLORC.

In accordance of the wishes of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD, we call
for the immediate and complete withdrawal of all foreign businesses from Burma.

Who is on board:
The FBC works with student activists at over 100 colleges, universities and
high schools in the U.S. and Canada and concerned citizens in as many as 26
other countries including South Africa.  The largest human rights campaign
in cyberspace, the FBC has recently been nominated for Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights Award.

Updated Free Burma Coalition Member List
A) Free Burma Groups and Contacts at the following colleges and universities

1. Adirondack Communtiy College
2. American University
3. Arizona State University
4. Baylor College of Medicine
5. Barnard College
6. Boston College
7. Boston University
8. Brandeis University
9. Carleton University
10. California State University at Humbolt
11. California State University at San Francisco
12. California State University at Sonoma
13. Central Michigan University
14. Colgate University
15. Colorado College
16. Columbia University
17. Connecticut College
18. Cornell University
19. Dartmouth College
20. De Paul University
21. Duke University
22. East Tennessee State University
23. Eastern Washington University
24. Georgetown University
25. Hampshire College
26. Harvard University
27. Hunter College
28. Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne
29. Indiana University at Bloomington
30. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
31. Iona College (Canada)
32. Iowa State University
33. James Madison University
34. Lewis and Clark College
35. Marian College
36. Mary Washington College
37. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
38. McGill University (Canada)
39. Mississispi State University
40. Michigan State University
41. New Jersy Medical School
42. New York University
43. Northeastern University
44. Northwestern University
45. Oberlin College
46. Ohio University
47. Ohio State University
48. Pace University
49. Pennsylvania State University
50. Princeton University
51. Reed College
52. Rice University
53. Santa Monica College
54. Sarah Lawrence College
55. Sienna College
56. Skidmore College
57. Snow College
58. Southampton College
59. St. Louis University
60. St. Cloud State University
61. Stanford University
62. State University of New York-Geneseo
63. SUNY-Albany
64. Stephen F. Austin University
65. Swarthmore College
66. Syracuse University,
67. Tufts University
68. Texas A & M University
69. Texas Southern University
70. Texas Women's University
71. University of Alaska
72. University of Arizona
73. University of California at Berkeley
74. UCLA
75. UC-Santa Brabara
76. University of Chicago
77. University of Colorado at Boulder
78. University of Florida-Gainesville
79. University of Guelph (Canada)
80. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
81. University of Illinois at Chicago
82. University of Georgia
83. University of Houston
84. University of Kansas
85. University of Kentucky
86. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
87. University of Minnesota
88. University of Montana
90. University of New Mexico
91. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
92. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
93. University of Oklahoma
94. University of Richmond
95. University of Texas at Austin
96. University of Vermont
97. University of Virginia
98. University of Washington
99. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
100. University of Wisconsin at Madison
101. Universiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
102. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
103. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
103. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
104. Utah State University
105. Virginia Technology Institute
106. Warren-Wilson College
107. Weber State University
108. Wellesley College
109. Western Michigan University
110. Yale University

3) Pre-college Free Burma Groups
Creighton High (Omaha, NE), East High (Madison, Wis.), Ft. Atkinson High
(Ft. Atkinson, Wis.), Eau Claire High (Eau Claire, Wis.), Gunn High School
(Palo Alto, Calif.), Memorial High (Madison, Wis.), Palo Alto High (Palo
Alto, Calif.), Shabazz High School (Madison, Wis.), University of Chicago
Lab Schools (IL), West High (Madison, Wis.), Moraga Junior High (Moraga,
Calif.), St Louis Art School (MO), Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington
Twshp. (NJ)

Remarks:
1) The list is updated as of today (September 10,1996). It keeps growing.

2) Many schools have strong Free Burma Coalition chapters while others
participate in events and help support the FBC.

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Massachusetts		simon_billenness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

[Feel free to suggest more areas of coverage]
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