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...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 is the Arabs' "secondary boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Battling the Blacklist | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...part of an unwillingness to come to terms with reality which unfortunately characterizes a great deal of recent American foreign policy. Throughout the 14-year period, Castro repeatedly expressed his readiness to establish amicable relations with this country. And just last fall, the Cuban government conveyed to visiting Senators Jacob K. Javits and Claiborne Pell its anxiousness to achieve a detente with the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Late Than Never | 3/11/1975 | See Source »

...price increase in hopes of winning support from Eastern Republicans, who feared that the increase would send their constituents' heating bills soaring because the region depends so heavily on imported oil. But Ford was unwilling to go as far as some of them demanded. New York Senator Jacob Javits, for example, insisted that 80% of the burden of any price hike fall on gasoline. Moreover, Ford's offer upset Western Senators, whose constituents drive long distances and are most concerned about how Ford's program will affect the price of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Trying to Avert a Collision | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...response to the worsening situation, New York's Senator Jacob Javits plans this week to introduce a bill that would extend benefits for many workers still another 13 weeks-up to a maximum 65 weeks at a cost to the Federal Government of $1.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNEMPLOYMENT: Signs of Stress in the Saftey Nets | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...Mitla Pass, cabled Schecter, is no narrow cowboy-and-Indian ambush site. It stretches for 15 miles between granite outcroppings, the quickest route into the Sinai from the canal. With the low ground beneath him and the demilitarized zone nine miles in front of him, General Jacob ("Jacke") Evan, 40, made his pitch, stressing the importance of controlling the high ground and maintaining an effective "electronic alert." Evan, deputy commander of Israel's southern front and an armored expert who fought at Mitla Pass in '67, declined to explain what he meant by the term, but Israeli radar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sinai: A Border for Israel | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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