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    Vol.61/No.9           March 3, 1997 
 
 
Appeal To Our Readers  
 Over the last week, Militant reporter Megan Arney called the office of Michael Rannenberger, Coordinator of Cuban Affairs for the U.S. State Department, several times asking for information substantiating the claim the Clinton administration official made at a conference in Washington, D.C., February 10 that "around a dozen companies" have pulled out of Cuba as a result of the Helms-Burton law. Investor's Business Daily and other media repeated this claim as a fact the next day.

Finally, on February 18, after repeated requests for a list of the companies that have supposedly disinvested from Cuba, Rannenberger's secretary Tamiko Lofty responded that the State Department does have the names of these corporations but "we are not releasing them to the public."

At the conference where Rannenberger made this statement, Republican Dan Fisk provided his own list of such companies (see article on this page). But the number of companies he gave did not match Rannenberger's estimate and the State Department would not corroborate Fisk's list.

The Militant is offering a free one-year subscription to the first reader who can provide substantiated evidence of the number and names of companies that have pulled out of Cuba as a result of Helms-Burton law since Clinton signed it a year ago. - A.M.  
 
 
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