And the United States continues to ban new investment in South Africa.

Community sanctions against Pretoria ban new investment in South Africa, the promotion of tourism and the import of steel, iron and gold coins.

The Constitution bans foreign investment in Petróleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil monopoly, and the country lacks large reserves of iron and bauxite, analysts say.

The law states that the Administration must ban new American investment in Myanmar if its military Government steps up repression of the democratic opposition.

The United States has banned new investment there and barred visits from its leaders.

Questionable too is the idea of banning investment in Indonesia to avoid moral contamination.

Europe has maintained sanctions on Myanmar, which used to be known as Burma, for the last several years, and in 1997 President Clinton banned new American investment there.

Congress has passed a law banning new investment if the crackdown intensifies, but the Clinton Administration has not yet invoked it.

Legislation now before Congress would ban American investment in Myanmar, formerly Burma, because of its military dictatorship.

For example," he wrote, "the Philippines currently bans foreign investment in rural banking, and Honduras limits foreign investors in forestry to a minority stake.