Article: First Union, SunTrust, Wachovia Officials Embark on Long Campaigns for Merger.

By Amber Veverka, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 6--Eight states in four days: It's not the summer vacation from hell, it's the typical schedule for leaders of First Union, Wachovia and SunTrust during their tense battle for shareholder votes.

Like politicians on whistle-stop, kiss-the-babies tours, the executives are jetting across the country to flash slides, statistics and smiles at portfolio managers for pension and mutual funds -- the people who control the biggest chunks of all three banks' stocks.

It's been a frantic campaign ever since May 14, when Atlanta's SunTrust Banks Inc. launched its ...

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