Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill: "These people [the Arabs] are trying to coerce Americans into discriminating against other Americans. In other words, they are trying to subvert the very foundations of our republic." Advocates of the Williams bill say that their target is the Arabs' "secondary boycott"-the economic pressure (through the blacklist threat) that is placed on U.S. companies not to trade with Israel. They argue that this makes the Arab boycott of Israel different from the trade embargoes imposed by the U.S. against Cuba and, not too long ago, China...
...Administration and many business leaders worry that a legislative assault on the Arab blacklist might frighten off badly needed foreign capital and provoke diplomatic and economic reprisals by Arab countries. One alternative favored by the White House: the creation of a special office to monitor and supervise all foreign investments in the U.S. Nevertheless, with active encouragement from the B'nai B'rith and other groups that make up the so-called Jewish lobby, a retaliatory mood seems to be growing in Congress: no fewer than 26 Senators lined up to sponsor a resolution calling on the Administration...
...Power Co. turned up on the list, even though the utility holding company has no interests anywhere in the Middle East. The Ford Motor Co. and Xerox Corp., both boycotted since 1966, are only two of many firms that have been trying to have their names removed from the blacklist...
...which took place on Ashland Chemical Co., Bendix Field Engineering Corp., Dresser Industries Inc. and International School Services. the same day, were clearly intended as a signal of bipartisan U.S. concern about the boycott. In Cairo, where the Arab boycott committee is currently holding its semiannual review of the blacklist, Mohammed Mahgoub, commissioner general of the boycott office, defended the list as "a legitimate means of legitimate self-defense." At the boycott committee's opening session last week, Mahgoub insisted that companies are listed only if they "play a role in helping Israel's economic, industrial or military...
Some Justice officials are discussing an other approach: a threat of action under civil rights laws against U.S. companies that bow to the blacklist by deliberately excluding Jewish employees from their Arab operations...