Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This income has helped Iran partly offset a de facto trade embargo imposed by U.S. longshoremen, who have refused to load cargoes on ships headed for Iran. U.S. exports to Iran in 1978 totaled about $3.7 billion a year and included 25% of Iran's food imports and most of the replacement parts for its weapons and capital machinery. Administration officials maintain that the freeze has furthermore deprived Iran of basic imports such as cooking oils, tires and even valves for Tehran's water supply system. Insisted one Administration spokesman: "The way we see it, the Iranians should...
...purchases of Iranian oil, 700,000 bbl. per day, or 4% of U.S. consumption; he froze all Iranian government banking assets in the U.S. The Administration has not officially interrupted the flow of the nearly $500 million worth of food the U.S. ships to Iran annually. But the International Longshoremen's Association instructed all its members not to load any vessels bound for Iran, and the giant American Farm Bureau Federation offered to support a total boycott on food exports. Some militant superpatriots talked of blockading the Iranian coast, but the Administration consistently ruled out that and all other military...
...vice president of the International Longshoremen's Association and head of its Local 1814 in Brooklyn, Anthony Scotto, 45, has long been laden with two very different reputations. A personable and articulate man who favors $500 pinstripe suits and expensive Manhattan restaurants, Scotto has lectured at Harvard University on labor relations, serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and counts some of New York's most prominent politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert...
...American public does not think of teachers as vital to daily life because they don't deliver instant results. We pay off truck drivers, longshoremen and railway workers with fat increases because we want our goods delivered now, and because it's good business. But when it comes to education, we think there is no profit to reap...
Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy: Also in D.C., brings together 40 different national groups from the National Council of Churches and the ADA to the Longshoremen's union, to push for a peaceful, non-interventionist, humanitarian and open foreign policy...