UNOCAL - LA Times article 4 June, 1

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Subject: UNOCAL - LA Times article 4 June, 1996

(this is only the Burma related portion)  by Patrick Lee, Times Staff Writer

   Meanwhile, about 50 demonstrators picketed the annual meeting, assailing
Unocal's investments in Myanmar, formerly Burma, in a project to develop a
natural gas field off Myanmar's coast and to build a pipeline across the
country to Thailand.

   The Protestors argue that Unocal is cooperating with a brutal military
regime that has crushed dissent, displaced villagers along the pipeline route
and used forced labor to build roads and clear the area.

  During the meeting, dissident shareholders, led by the Catholic Maryknoll
Fathers and Brothers, mounted a proposal, which was ultimately defeated, to
revise Unocal's statement of corporate principles to withdraw investment from
nations with a pattern of human rights violations.

  "We are profoundly troubled by the horrendous human rights violations in
Burma as reported to us by our own missioners in the field, our State
Department, the United Nations and by trusted human rights resources around
the world,"  said the Rev. Joseph P. La Mar, assistant treasurer of the
Maryknoll Fathers.

  In the face of sometimes hostile questioning, Beach flatly denied the
allegations.  "I visited Myanmar just six weeks ago," he said.  "Let me
assure you that there is no conscripted labor work on this project. No
villages have been relocated because of our project.  And no pristine rain
forest will be negatively impacted by our project."

        bloomberg business news contributed to this report.