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...They initialed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, linking their two countries in law enforcement. They also noted that Canada will participate in the $8 billion manned space-station program planned by the U.S. for the mid-1990s. Canada is no stranger to space technology, since Ontario-based Spar Aerospace Ltd. built the mechanical arm used in the U.S. space shuttle...
Indian officials were quick to dispute the report. "How can Union Carbide disown its own subsidiary?" H.R. Bharadwaj, India's Minister of State for Law and Justice, asked in an interview with the New York Times. (The company holds a 50.9% stake in Union Carbide India Ltd.) "We expected the company would try to palm off the blame," Kamal Pareek, an engineer familiar with the plant, told the paper. "But Union Carbide cannot escape responsibility." Indeed, suits totaling more than $250 billion have been filed against the firm on behalf of the residents of Bhopal...
South African operations: Kimberly-Clark holds a 39 percent equity interest--it owns 39 percent of the shares of--Carlton Paper Corp. Ltd., a South African company...
South African operations: According to spokesman Bill Kestlen, U.S. Steel holds a minority equity interest in three small South African companies: Prieska Copper Mines, Feralloys, and Associated Manganese Minds of South Africa Ltd. The total number of employees of those companies is less than 100,000, Kestlen said, and U.S. Steel itself has no employees in the country. He added that a similar shareholder petition in 1981 was voted down...
...chance to talk firsthand with so many U.S. policymakers. "Learning what makes a political system go, and what the concerns are, has to be of value," said Warren Chippindale, chairman of Coopers & Lybrand. "We saw a lot of people who have clout." John Stoik, president of Gulf Canada Ltd., seemed to speak for many of his colleagues when he said, "I never have had very much exposure to the Government in this country, and I have been very, very impressed with the quality of the people." And, in turn, the Americans were impressed by the sophisticated world view of their...