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...Fellow reactionary members of the Union Club--we have been found out. No longer can we blacklist democrats, labor leaders, and other unfortunates. Our current list includes twenty-seven Democrats (none of whom will contribute a nickel to Harvard), and one worthwhile fellow, a Republican...
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...article in your issue of Nov. 2, on the boycott of Israel by Arab nations, you included this company in a list of firms that "have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic." We were never on such a blacklist. The facts are that for a few years we owned a company that did a relatively small (about 5% of the market) business selling oil in Israel. Problems of foreign exchange and competition from the government-owned oil-marketing company in Israel made the operation unattractive from a purely commercial standpoint...
...wars. It has effectively deterred Israel's plans to set itself up as an industrial nucleus to serve Middle East markets. Such well-known U.S. firms as Philco Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), British-Shell and Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic...
...current blacklist, drawn up in Cairo, names 48 American firms. Included are Empire Brushes Inc., Kaiser Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and Plough Sales Corp., because they have branches or agencies in Israel. Individual Arab countries have their own blacklists, which are even more capriciously kept. Philco radios and air conditioners were banned in Saudi Arabia even after the firm's name was removed from the Arab League blacklist. Last February, after Elizabeth Taylor bought $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, the United Arab Republic banned any further showing of her films in Syria and Egypt. Presumably the boycott...