Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governmental travel bureaus that develops package tours in the Middle East, abruptly moved its regional headquarters from Cairo to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Reminded of the longstanding Arab boycott against Israeli commercial interests, one U.S. businessman in Cairo concluded: "We're faced with a new Arab blacklist...
Such tactics have caused oil executives to mutter about drawing up a blacklist of their own, perhaps to refuse to deal in the spot market with OPEC countries that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...
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...leaves no worlds to conquer at home; in recent years much of the chain's fast sales growth has come from shopping by foreign tourists. Oddly, they include many Arabs-though the chain's top officers are such fervent Zionists that Marks & Spencer is on the Arab blacklist. Middle Eastern customers must snip the St. Michael's label out of the clothing they buy before bringing their purchases home. Still, M & S has seen fit to post signs in its main branch stores warning against pickpockets in English, French, German, Arabic and Farsi (the main language...
During the '50s, the C.P. went underground, forced to retreat in the face of the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is hard, now, to understand the kind of fear that the committee inspired; Mitford describes the terror of the blacklist, and the sense that the FBI followed suspected party members everywhere. It has all been told before, of course, but rarely from such an honest, individual stance. Mitford has a way of engaging--and holding--the reader's sympathy, and the HUAC loses any legitimacy it might have held in the face of her good-humored description...