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...distributed the names of 159 athletes from 16 nations who have competed in South Africa from September to December of 1980-and urged countries to ban them. The movement has since been endorsed by a number of nations and international organizations, including the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid. The blacklist includes U.S. Tennis Players Stan Smith, Pat DuPre and Bob Lutz, World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion Mike Weaver, British Golfer Nick Faldo and the entire French rugby team. Further additions are promised -possibly including Lee Trevino, who last month won a tournament in South Africa. As it is, the list...
NCPAC's job will be far tougher in 1982 because most of the liberals on its blacklist are from densely populated states, which are harder to inundate with propaganda. Dolan succeeded this year in Idaho, South Dakota and Iowa--states with small and increasingly conservative constituencies--but he flopped in California, where Alan Cranston held onto his seat...
Although a complete accounting is impossible, most of the victims have now been found, he says. They included actors, writers, directors, American culture, and the right of free expression. The father of the high-school girl friend, for example, had been a prominent scriptwriter before he was blacklisted for "subversive" activities and forced to find work parking cars. The chess teacher was J. Edward Bromberg, an actor who died shortly after he was compelled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in ill-health and against doctor's orders. The law school friend's mother had gone...
...Adriatic, were found to be hazardous, but others turned out to be relatively pure. The biggest polluters, not surprisingly, are France, Italy and Spain. Thus they will have to bear the biggest part of the cost of the more than $10 billion program. The proposed treaty includes a blacklist of banned substances (for example, mercury, cadmium, radioactive materials) and a gray list of those that will be tolerated in specified quantities. All factories and sewage systems will be required to install antipollution devices, and new installations will have to conform to treaty specifications...
...last week Japan had bulging oil stockpiles, and the country refused Iran's latest asking price of $35 per bbl. for long-term supply contracts. Iran immediately cut off all energy shipments to Japan, which now joins the U.S. and Portugal on Tehran's blacklist...