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...Arab world's 15-year-old boy cott of Israel - and of foreign companies that do more than just sell finished goods to Israel - has up to now produced a lot of political smoke but not much economic fire. Unevenly applied and quixotically enforced, the blacklist has up to now proved mostly a nuisance to Israel, while many corporations abroad have found ways to dodge...
Milwaukeeans have been on a boy-cott-the-Braves campaign ever since the team's management decided to move to Atlanta next year. A beer company angrily canceled its sponsorship of home-game telecasts. Signs sprouted from buildings: ATLANTA YOU CAN HAVE THEM. Businessmen wore BYE-BYE BRAVES buttons, and fans stayed away from the ballpark; attendance this season is down almost 400,000 from...
...touchiest issue that now faces Orthodoxy: how to initiate and carry on the theological dialogue with Rome that Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI agreed to when they met in Jerusalem last January. Merely putting the subject on the agenda led the Orthodox Church of Greece to boy cott last year's Rhodes meeting, partly because the Greek bishops are fearful of Rome's power and partly because Athens' Metropolitan Chrysostomos is jealous of Athenagoras' growing influence in Orthodoxy. Strong pressure from some progressive metropolitans and from the government persuaded the Greek bishops to send delegates...
...sanctions so far have neither defused the boom of Africa's richest nation nor diminished its role as a prime salesman to the world. Since the boy cott began four years ago, British and U.S. investment alone in South Africa has risen 50% to $3.7 billion, South Africa's gross national product has in creased 20% to $8.6 billion, and the Rand Daily Mail's stock market index has nearly quadrupled. With exports of products as varied as wheat and mining machinery running at a record $1.5 billion rate, South Africa boasts an inter national payments surplus...
...taping his talk shows, Cott hopes to feed them to the rest of the stations affiliated with the National Television Association (he has already sold Bishop Sheen to N.T.A.'s Minneapolis station). By next week Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee will be ready with a show: "Singing, dancing and lots of chitchat." And aging (59) Alex King, though his health is precarious, shows no signs of running down. "I'm under constant sedation for high blood pressure," says he. "Gandhi and St. Ignatius Loyola had high blood pressure too, and we all started with sinful lives...