Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee A" (academic freedom and tenure) launches a finecomb investigation. Full details are published in the A.A.U.P. Bulletin. Members may then be asked to vote for censure, which repels not only job seekers, but also such donors as big philanthropic foundations. At its San Francisco meeting, A.A.U.P. swelled the blacklist to 15 campuses, from Pennsylvania's Grove City College (no hearing) to Tennessee's Fisk University (no separation pay). "Once a school gets on our censured list," says A.A.U.P.'s General Counsel, Harvard Law Professor Clark Byse, "it really wants...
...reason for progress is the power of the A.A.U.P. blacklist to keep away potential professors just when the South is crying for them. Another reason is the lesson of Ole Miss, where Classicist William Willis reports that segregationist "screaming" no longer scares anyone. "The faculty speaks much more freely now than it did last September," says Willis. "Oh, students still report professors to the local Citizens Council. But all we get are a few harassing phone calls." The point is clear: "A substantial portion of the faculty found that by exercising academic freedom, they have...
...promises on taxes and medicare. "It's not just this year's bills," said one. "Landrum will be hitting us in the head for the next 20 years." The insurgents got support from labor, which has the authors of the Landrum-Griffin Act on the same blacklist as the authors of the Taft-Hartley...
...bitter "state of war'' that the Arabs still maintain against Israel, the only weapon left is the economic blacklist of companies and persons trading with the Jewish state. Even this weapon has begun to fail, because it is clear that the penalties are boomeranging against the Arabs themselves...
Today the blacklist is full of loopholes. Arab countries do business with airlines that also service Israel. Rather than lose tourist trade, Arabs now allow cruise ships to dock at their ports after stopping at Haifa. Cairo shops still sell Sinatra records, though Frankie's "pro-Israel" tendencies have kept him on the blacklist for years. Last week the boycott received the gravest blow yet. It involved a U.S. freighter that had been blacklisted for previous stops in Israel. When the ship arrived in Beirut harbor with 2,400 tons of wheat for the Palestinian Arab refugees, powerful voices...