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...does business with the Arab world-and just about every significant corporation does -faces a dilemma. It must comply with Arab laws. But one of those laws is that a business must refuse to deal with companies that in any way aid Israel's economic development. This Arab boycott adds up to a type of discrimination that President Ford has condemned. So what is a company...
Last week Bechtel Corp., a huge San Francisco-based engineering and construction firm (1975 contracts: $3 billion), came up with a startling answer. It insists that a company has to observe the boycott to the same degree as the U.S. Government does-and it argues that the Government is in fact complying with the boycott...
Violation Charged. Bechtel has profitably worked in the Middle East for 32 years and now has several multimillion-dollar projects under way there. In January the Department of Justice sued Bechtel in a test case, asking that it be enjoined from obeying the boycott. The charge: by refusing to give work to blacklisted U.S. firms, the engineering company was restricting competition and thus violating the Sherman Act, the basic U.S. antitrust...
...response, Bechtel admitted it is indeed complying with the boycott but denied it is restraining competition because the goods or services of blacklisted firms would not be allowed into Arab countries anyway. In addition, Bechtel contends that the Justice Department is seeking to broaden illegally the Sherman Act to include foreign or political boycotts, as well as domestic restraints of trade. Most compellingly, the company argues that the Government itself is complying with the boycott. Specifically, Bechtel said several U.S. agencies, most notably the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey, when working in Arab countries, have "engaged...
There is no place for the CRR in an academic community where students should be free to express their disagreement with University policy through political protests. The CRR should be abolished, and students should continue to boycott it as they have since 1971. Short of that, the Faculty should adopt the changes proposed by the ad hoc reform committee. Those changes, while they may make the CRR more equitable in practice, will not alter the principles of repression that lie behind...