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...Kansas City?a time when untold millions in such pivotal Eastern states as Pennsylvania (27 electoral votes) and New York (41) had already gone to bed. Then, staying in Washington and acting "presidential"?a major theme of his campaign?Ford will address the B'nai B'rith convention, a speech that will be closely studied by key Jewish leaders. Ford will also meet with the same Roman Catholic bishops who last week got into yet another squabble with Carter over the abortion issue (see story page 21). All in all, quite a week of campaigning for a noncampaigning President...
...groups. The IRS between 1969 and 1973 had also fulfilled an FBI request to check the taxes of some 8,000 American citizens and 3,000 organizations, including Columnist Joseph Alsop, then New York Mayor John Lindsay, Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., Author Norman Mailer, B'nai B'rith, Associated Catholic Charities, Americans for Democratic Action, the John Birch Society, Common Cause, the New York Review...
...Arab boycott of Israel is rapidly becoming a political issue in the U.S. In various House and Senate hearings last week, leaders of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and other Jewish groups offered some new revelations of how the Arab oil states are using their new economic strength. They testified that more than a dozen U.S. shipping lines have been quietly cooperating with the boycott by avoiding Israeli ports. Another charge: that commercial banks that act as agents for Arab countries have been requiring certificates of compliance with the boycott before issuing letters...
...frighten off badly needed foreign capital and provoke diplomatic and economic reprisals by Arab countries. One alternative favored by the White House: the creation of a special office to monitor and supervise all foreign investments in the U.S. Nevertheless, with active encouragement from the B'nai B'rith and other groups that make up the so-called Jewish lobby, a retaliatory mood seems to be growing in Congress: no fewer than 26 Senators lined up to sponsor a resolution calling on the Administration to take economic steps, such as cutting off technical assistance programs, against Arab countries that...
According to the B'nai B'rith, four private firms* and two U.S. Government agencies had violated U.S. civil rights laws by excluding Jews from employment in Arab countries in order to do business or carry out aid programs there. Not all the companies responded immediately to the charges, but 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...