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...league with Hollywood's own self-censoring agency, the Production Code Administration (P.C.A.). The church's ultimate weapon was an ungentlemanly C (for condemned) rating, a box-office kiss of death partly because U.S. Catholics used to take a public pledge at Mass, once a year, to boycott movies that were designated trash...
Short of arming the revolutionary underground--an unattractive prospect for most Western governments--the only possibility for change in Argentina is an international economic boycott. But the USSR and West Germany, which conduct a significant amount of trade with Argentina, would no doubt be unwilling to cooperate as would the United States under a conservative president such as Reagan...
Last week, Allison embarked for the Soviet Union. He had been invited by Russian officials. In the wake of the Olympic boycott and the cooling of the cold war, however, Allison was not about to be injudicious; he called up the State Department to see if his trip was appropriate...
...becoming increasingly aware of how badly Tehran needs the return of the $8 billion Iranian assets that have been frozen in U.S. banks and a restoration of normal trade relations with the West. Shady deals with black marketeers who supply spare parts unavailable because of the West's boycott, for instance, have become the main cause of a runaway inflation that is estimated between 70% and 80%. The country's U.S.-supplied military hardware is in a state of such disrepair that it has put Iran at a severe disadvantage in its border conflicts with Iraq. A settlement...