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...failure of the biracial meeting to face up to the issue of Butler Young's death has made the boycott's organizers even more determined. That determination is perfectly evident at Carrington's Market in Byhalia. Before the boycott, sales ran $30,000 a month. Today they are less than $6,000 a month...
...earlier, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith accused a number of private companies and U.S. agencies of discriminating against Jews, and also provided part of an Arab boycott list that extended beyond the banking community into the ranks of American business. And only a few hours after the President's Florida press conference, Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, produced a copy of the entire blacklist...
...those that did so denied them. So did one of the federal agencies: the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which promotes U.S. trade projects abroad. The other agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages construction projects in Saudi Arabia for the U.S. Government, acknowledged tacit compliance with the boycott...
...William L. Durham and Joseph D. Bennett, explained that in deference to Saudi wishes, the Corps of Engineers made a practice of not assigning Jewish personnel to Saudi Arabia and also saw to it that its civilian contractors did the same. But both denied ever having seen the Arab boycott list...
...President's denunciation of Arab discrimination and the Church hearing, both of which took place on Ashland Chemical Co., Bendix Field Engineering Corp., Dresser Industries Inc. and International School Services. the same day, were clearly intended as a signal of bipartisan U.S. concern about the boycott. In Cairo, where the Arab boycott committee is currently holding its semiannual review of the blacklist, Mohammed Mahgoub, commissioner general of the boycott office, defended the list as "a legitimate means of legitimate self-defense." At the boycott committee's opening session last week, Mahgoub insisted that companies are listed only...