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Abour 20 employees of the distributor of Gallo wines for the Boston area counter, demonstrated last night outside the Harvard Provision Co. against picketers there who have for several months been urging a boycott of Gallo wines...
...counter-demonstration was the first of its kind at the Pro. picketers supporting the boycott said...
...young man who said he is Pappas' wines salesman for Cambridge admitted the boycott "is hurting him badly." He said he, not the Pappas management, was the organizer of the counter-demonstration...
Special Office. In the Senate, New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams Jr. has introduced a bill that would empower the President to bar individual foreign investments of more than 5% in U.S. firms; investments by Arabs or, for that matter, anyone else participating in a commercial boycott would be prohibited altogether. Says New York Republican Jacob Javits, a strong proponent of the Williams bill: "These people [the Arabs] are trying to coerce Americans into discriminating against other Americans. In other words, they are trying to subvert the very foundations of our republic." Advocates of the Williams bill say that their target...
...that make up the so-called Jewish lobby, a retaliatory mood seems to be growing in Congress: no fewer than 26 Senators lined up to sponsor a resolution calling on the Administration to take economic steps, such as cutting off technical assistance programs, against Arab countries that observe the boycott...