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15 Oct 2001

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Free Burma Coalition

University of Virginia Divests 50,000 Shares from UNOCAL

Rogue Oil Company That Attempted to Build Pipeline With Taliban Comes Under Fire From Students, Faculty, Seven Nobel Peace Laureates for Abuses in Burma -...The move makes UVA the third public university to divest of stock in oil corporations that have operated in the southeast Asian country. The University of Wisconsin divested $250,000 from Texaco and the University of Minnesota divested $1.5 million from France-based Total. Earlier this year, American University in Washington, DC removed items made in Burma from the campus store