Word: antiboycott
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...Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: "There is apprehension. But there is no confrontation yet. In fact, there is gratitude and satisfaction with some aspects of Administration policy." Jewish leaders applaud Carter's strong stand on Soviet dissidents, on free emigration from Russia, on the antiboycott legislation. Carter has also increased economic aid to Israel by $400 million. Growing doubts have apparently not caused Jewish leaders to tighten their purse strings. Tickets are selling briskly for a $1,000-a-plate Salute to the President dinner to be held this week in New York City...
Stiffer Laws. Even before the presidential campaign, pressure had been building in the U.S. to take a more active stand against the boycott. In the last session of Congress, both the House and Senate passed antiboycott bills. The version that finally emerged from an informal conference committee would have allowed firms to continue filling out certain boycott forms, but the companies would have been barred from engaging in any discriminatory action toward other U.S. firms, or from changing their business methods to support the boycott. The bill died after extensive parliamentary maneuvering by Republican Senator John Tower of Texas...
...difficult for the U.S. to pay for the growing amount of oil the nation imports from the Middle East. Administration officials also are concerned that a tough stand will cost the U.S. its diplomatic leverage with the Arab states. Such fears are in no way allayed by a California antiboycott law that goes into effect Jan. 1. Under it, all California corporations that cooperate in the boycott against Israel will be subject to prosecution. If found guilty, they could be fined up to $1 million and their managers imprisoned for as long as three years...
...assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P. again turned the boycott screw. But by then the Mississippi legislature had enacted a civil and criminal law banning any "conspiracy" to prevent a citizen from exercising a "lawful trade or calling." The antiboycott bill was backed by then State Representative Robert L. Vaughn, one of the boycotted businessmen...
...will go on pension and the Political-Economic Planning Division that he directed will be shut down. "We're superfluous," says Arazi, 58, a onetime underground fighter and Ambassador to Cyprus. But he says it with a smile. The Political-Economic Planning Division is actually Israel's antiboycott office, set up eleven years ago to thwart the efforts of 18 Arab countries to choke Israel economically. "The boycott does us infinitesimal harm now," says Arazi. "It is so inefficient and ineffective that we simply don't need this division any more...