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Hearing for Unocal Abuses in Burma

Subject: Hearing for Unocal  Abuses in Burma Suit delayed

        Hearing for Unocal Abuses in Burma Suit Delayed

            Reuters, Monday, June 09, 1997 at 18:34

           LOS ANGELES, June 9 (Reuter) - Lawyers for activists hoping to 
block Unocal Corp's development of a natural gas project in Burma 
postponed a hearing scheduled for Monday in U.S. District Court in Los 
Angeles.
           Lawyers for the plaintiffs asked a judge to push the hearing 
back to September or October, but the judge did not set a specific date.
           The $1.2 billion pipeline project is to carry natural gas from 
offshore Burma to Thailand beginning next year.
           The government of Burma, also known as Myanmar, has come under 
international criticism for its alleged human right abuses.

        Copyright 1997, Reuters News Service