Word: blacklisted
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...part of an Arab boycott list that extended beyond the banking community into the ranks of American business. And only a few hours after the President's Florida press conference, Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, produced a copy of the entire blacklist...
...Power Co. turned up on the list, even though the utility holding company has no interests anywhere in the Middle East. The Ford Motor Co. and Xerox Corp., both boycotted since 1966, are only two of many firms that have been trying to have their names removed from the blacklist...
...committee which virtually created the blacklist did, however, serve some of its own most aggressive members very well. It was as a young committee member that Congressman Richard M. Nixon first achieved a national reputation with his tenacious investigation of the Hiss case...
...original blacklist made it appearance in February 1972 when the House Armed Services Committee, with Hebert at its head, ruled that the Defense Department could not train its military personnel at universities that have unilaterally dropped ROTC. The ruling stipulated that personnel could continue to train at any university with "unique and irreproduceable programs...
...Swiss Federation of Protestant Churches took issue with the blacklist, which included 17 Swiss firms. Commenting on the churches' criticism at a meeting of the federation, Philip Potter got in a wry last word. "I rejoice that we have started a real ecumenical conversation in Switzerland," he said. "Even though the World Council has its headquarters in Geneva, that is something that has been missing all these years...