1.   Also last year, the American subsidiary of Astra of Sweden suspended its chief executive shortly before Business Week magazine reported sex harassment accusations against the company.

2.   American subsidiaries of foreign corporations can give money as long as the money does not come from the foreign corporate parent and is not controlled by the foreign executives.

3.   Americans head four of the nine largest American subsidiaries in Canada that are run by women.

4.   American subsidiaries have opposed such a ban in the past.

5.   And although foreign companies cannot contribute directly to U.S. campaigns, their American subsidiaries can.

6.   And, in earlier civil and criminal cases, companies have generally had some direct contact, through American subsidiaries or business operations, to bolster U.S. jurisdictional claims.

7.   Bronfman is an American citizen, however, and Seagram, a spirits company, has a big American subsidiary that could legally be made the owner of MCA.

8.   But Dole has fudged the more important issue of donations by the American subsidiaries of foreign-owned corporations.

9.   But the law does permit political contributions from foreigners with permanent resident status and the American subsidiaries of foreign companies to make such contributions.

10.   But the main thrust has been to extend the embargo to American subsidiaries abroad.