Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Feeling. To broaden his base, McGovern has lately begun seeking allies among labor and reaching for the increasingly important farm vote. Until late last summer, he was on AFL-CIO Chief George Meany's blacklist. It was partly a matter of hawk against dove, but equally at issue was a little-noticed attack by McGovern, long remembered by Meany, on labor's opposition to the 1963 U.S. wheat sales to Russia. "That really stuck in his craw," McGovern says, "and I went over to see him and apologize." Last month, McGovern was the only Democratic presidential possibility...
...most notable name on Welch's list of "Inadequate" programs is giant Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Others on the blacklist are Baylor, Case Western Reserve, and Rice universities; New Orleans Baptist Seminary; the fundamentalist Dallas and Grace seminaries; the Catholic Aquinas Institute; and the Jewish Dropsie College. These days, it seems, even mediocrity is ecumenical...
...time, the Arab blacklist runs to some 600 corporations or individuals in 64 nations. Ford Motor Co. is on it for setting up an assembly plant in Israel despite the fact that there is another Ford subsidiary in Egypt, and Moviemaker Otto Preminger is on it for having made Exodus. But Hilton and Sheraton manage hotels in Tel Aviv as well as Cairo, and such airlines as Air France, Lufthansa, SAS and TWA service both sides. Bonwit Teller, the U.S. department store, is on some boycott lists, presumably for handling Israeli fashions...
...Foreign Minister Abba Eban describes as "the economic power of 10 million Jews in the free world." The Israelis, for instance, leaked word last January that a London-based subsidiary of Mobil Oil had ordered ship chandlers not to supply its tankers with Israeli goods because Libya threatened to blacklist ships found with such supplies aboard. Though Mobil headquarters in New York later withdrew the directive, 1,457 Mobil credit cards were canceled by customers. Of that number, 611 were renewed after Mobil conferred with U.S. Jewish leaders and advertised in Jewish newspapers that "there is no Mobil boycott. There...
Ervin has been plumping for an inquiry into the impact of Government data banks on individual rights since 1967, when he learned that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was using stored information to blacklist scientists for their political views. Two years later, he heard about the Secret Service's data bank, which houses information on 50,000 persons, including some who are described vaguely as "professional gate crashers" and some who "insist upon personally contacting high Government officials for the purpose of redress of imaginary grievances." Ervin figured he just might fit into the latter category...