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Article

29 Jun 2005

Author:
[column] David Nicklaus, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Illinois' message will reach Wall Street, but what about Sudan?

[scroll down to 'A column by David Nicklaus in the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"'] Can money managers in Springfield, Ill., help bring down a genocidal regime in Khartoum, Sudan? The Illinois Legislature clearly thinks they can, and so does Gov. Rod Blagojevich... DivestSudan.org, an activist Web site, says 83 publicly traded companies do business in Sudan, but it names only five: ABB of Switzerland, Alcatel, PetroChina, Siemens and Russian oil company Tatneft... Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics,...[said] "There is a genocide going on. The question is whether sanctions are going to do anything about it. I don't hold out much hope, but it is possible."