Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!crsp!pesnta!hplabs!sdcrdcf!jonab From: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.legal Subject: Re: New York Officials Act Against Northern Ireland Discrimination Message-ID: <1683@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 12:12:25 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1683 Posted: Fri Jan 18 12:12:25 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:53:19 EST References: <375@bonnie.UUCP> Reply-To: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar) Distribution: net Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.flame:7897 net.politics:7011 net.legal:1335 Summary: In article <375@bonnie.UUCP> jmm@bonnie.UUCP (Joe Mcghee) writes: >!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Recently, two New York City elected officials have proposed initiatives >directed at discriminatory practices which have flourished under British rule >in Northern Ireland. Comptroller Harrison Goldin proposes to attack >discrimination by American-owned subsidiary companies through shareholder >initiatives, public pressure, joint action with other municipalities and >further sanctions. > City Councilman Salvatore Albanese proposes to legislate mandatory >divestiture of funds for any American company which will not pledge to end >discrimination in their Northern Ireland subsidiaries. This is very interesting. All along I thought that only the Federal Government was allowed to make foreign policy. Seriously, don't any of you think like I do that these people are trying to usurp the federal Government's right to set foreign policy? Jon Biggar {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3}!sdcrdcf!jonab