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Article

14 Feb 2008

Author:
Tom Leonard & Richard Spencer, Telegraph [UK]

Stars asked to join Beijing Olympic boycott

Steven Spielberg...[cut his] links with the [Beijing Olympic] Games over China's policy on Darfur... Corporate sponsors, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson, had hitherto largely ignored calls to put pressure on China over Darfur, insisting it was a job for the United Nations, [Jill Savitt, director of the NGO Dream For Darfur,] said... Both GE and McDonald's said yesterday that they would continue to be involved in the Games. However, it may cost them in public goodwill.