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...contract would have required that Harvard Medical School cooperate with an international boycott of Israel
...middle, until recently, was the drug's producer, France's Roussel Uclaf. Its corporate parent, Germany's huge Hoechst chemical company, feared a pro-life boycott of its American products if it allowed RU 486 to be marketed in the U.S. And Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
...case, the political debate will certainly make it more difficult to find an American company willing to distribute the drug. After the pill appeared in France, opponents sent 1.5 million critical postcards to Hoechst's U.S. subsidiary, Hoechst Celanese, and they will inevitably call a boycott against all products of any company that gets into the RU 486 business. And that's just the first volley. "Do you think the pharmaceutical corporate executive wants someone picketing in his neighborhood?" asks the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, spokesman for Operation Rescue...
Aware of such potential problems, the pill's inventor, Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, is leading his own effort to establish a nonprofit foundation that would set up a new company both to manufacture and distribute RU 486 worldwide. Since the pill would be its only product, he says, the boycott threat would evaporate. The Population Council has expressed a willingness to discuss the plan with...
...find himself under pressure to defend the decision to a fearful and skeptical public. Rifkin promises to make things as difficult as possible. He is set to launch a yearlong anti-BGH campaign that includes full-page newspaper ads, 30- second TV and radio spots, and a grass-roots boycott of companies that continue to use the hormone. "We've got a short list of potential targets," he declared before a packed hearing room last week. "Kraft, are you here? Safeway, are you here? Land-O-Lakes, are you here...