Tibet protests put pressure on Olympics sponsors

Thursday, March 20, 2008

BEIJING -- McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.

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