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...rise or fall to ensure that their prices are no lower than the inflated prices of comparable EEC goods. American imports are also blocked by a plethora of nontariff devices: border taxes, health regulations and artificial technical restrictions. For instance, Italy bans American oranges on the grounds that their citrus scales could spread and contaminate Italian oranges...
Harsh Clampdown. One reason for Israel's failure to pacify Gaza is the nature of the land. It is an elongated, desperately poor 25-mile finger of desert, which has little more than citrus groves in the way of resources. Some 11,000 Gazans have found work in Jordan's occupied West Bank and 5,500 others in Israel itself. But the Palestinian who "collaborates" with the Israelis is a marked man. Last February, 61 Arabs were wounded when guerrillas blew up the main post office in the town of Gaza where they were cashing their Israeli paychecks...
...average, each American eats 116 lbs. of beef and 50 lbs. of poultry every year; Nader charges that all too often it is contaminated or diseased. In addition farm crops from citrus to cereals are annually dusted with about 1 billion pounds of pesticides. Such massive spraying, says Nader, is cause to fear for the environment and human health...
...conducted close to home. Since the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel has followed an "open bridges" policy that allows the Arabs living on the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Jordan to continue trade and traffic with the East Bank, and thus with the Arab world. The trade, in citrus fruits, vegetables and manufactured goods, has now reached $20 million annually, and competitors like Lebanon are demanding that the Arabs close the bridges. The Arab League will take up the matter in September...
...emphasis is on technical assistance in agronomy, water and soil development, highway planning, port development, fish breeding, sewage disposal, nutrition and handicrafts. Israeli experts have established citrus plantations in Madagascar and Uganda, a steamship line and a 16,000-acre cattle ranch in Ghana, a beekeeping industry in Senegal and massive poultry farms in Zambia and the Congo. In Togo, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Ghana, the Israelis have shown fascinated governments how to operate national lotteries...