Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mostel attacked the reasoning behind the blacklist, asking "What could actors be guilty of? Of passing secrets to Russian actors...
Cooked Spaghetti. The flap has obscured two issues raised by the boycott: the boycott itself and the mysterious Arab "blacklist" of American firms. The boycott bans from Arab trade any company whose business substantially helps Israel. Complying with it, as the candidates have failed to note, is not illegal; no U.S. law forces a company that sells to Arabs to sell to Israelis also...
...biggest headache for American businessmen and politicians is the Arab blacklist of firms or individuals that supposedly have helped Israel in one way or another. Often, Arab buyers will ask an American company to certify that it does not do business, even in the U.S., with any blacklisted firm. In that way, American companies are pressured to discriminate against other American companies. Compliance with such requests may be morally reprehensible, but its legal status is murky. No U.S. law specifically forbids it, but the Government contends that complying with the blacklist may violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by restricting competition...
...case, an American businessman who wanted to comply with the blacklist would have trouble finding out whom he was supposed to discriminate against. The list is constantly changing as firms are added-sometimes for unfathomable reasons-and others are dropped, often after paying the right fixer or offering lucrative investments in Arab lands. The only copy of the list that Washington has is dated 1970. Among those on the list: Motorola, CBS, Republic Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, RCA, Xerox, Lord & Taylor, Owens-Illinois, Ford, Coca Cola, Zenith...
Businessmen are afraid that hardliners in the new Congress may press for even stiffer laws against the boycott and blacklist. That, businessmen contend, would only drive Arab business to other countries, and make it increasingly 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...