House OKs Compromise Measure
011 Arab Bo ycotta GOP Leader Loses
With Stron ger-Language Substitute
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
House of Representatives adopted
a compromise amendment to the
Export Control Act to oppose the
Arab boycott after hours of bitter
debate.
Republicans and some Demo-
crats maintained during the debate
that the compromise was a con-
cession to the State Department
that would allow the Executive
Department to evade implementa-
tion of the measure.
The adopted measure, known as
the Multer-Halpern Amendment,
was worked out by the White
House with the chairman of the
House Committee on Banking and
,_Currency, the chairman of the
‘1.bcommittee which held hearings
— the bill and by Rep. Abraham
Muller, New York Democrat. and
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New York
Republican.
On the floor of Congress, how-
ever, an unexpected event oc-
curred when the committee's
ranking Republican, Rep. Wil-
liam Widnall, of New Jersey,
said that the Republicans were
not bound by any compromise
and indicated Rep. Halpern had
acted in his own behalf.
Rep. Widnall took the position
that the compromise took the teeth
out of the original anti-boycott
measure and made implementa-
tion dubious. He proposed a strong-
er substitute, reverting to the ori-
ginal measure advocated by many
subcommittee members, but the
substitute was voted down by a
vote of 96 to 64.
It was pointed out that the ap-
proach to drafting of "rules and
regulations" in the compromise
measure was vague and subject
to evasion by the State Depart-
ment while the more definitive and
specific language contained in the
Widnall substitute measure would
place a direct requirement of anti-
boycott action.
The need for a measure stronger
than the substitute was stressed in
addresses by such members as
Republicans John Lindsay and Og-
den Reid of New York, the latter
being the former U.S. ambassador
to Israel. Reid said that Congress
should not be "faint-hearted" be-
cause the Arab boycott is repug-
nant, and strong and definitive lan-
guage should be used in opposing
it.
Rep. Lindsay said that many
previous condemnations of Arab
policies had been made by Con-
gress in various legislation, but
that the State Department had
paid no attention. He explored the
State Department attempts to
equate the Arab boycott of Israel
with the American boycotts of
Cuba. Communist China and North
Viet Nam.
Among the Democrats, Rep.
William F. Ryan of New York
took a stand favoring the strong-
er Republican substitute. Chair-
man Wright Patman of Texas
of the committee that reported
out the bill, and Rep. Thomas
Ashley of Ohio, chairman of the
subcommittee, made known that
they did not favor even the com-
promise measure because they
said it interfered with the Pres-
ident's conduct of foreign af-
fairs, but agreed to support it in
preference to stronger legisla-
tion.
The Republican substitute meas-
ure offered by Rep. Widnall called
for the mandatory prohibition of
the furnishing - by American firms
of boycott information to the
Arabs. The compromise calls for
"rules and regulations" to imple-
ment the provisions of this act to
be set forth in keeping with the
expressed policy contained in the
act.
The policy voiced in the act
would "oppose restrictive trade
practices or boycotts fostered or
imposed by foreign countries
against other countries friendly to
the United States, and to encour-
age and request domestic sources
engaged in the exports of articles,
materials or supplies or technical
data, to refuse to take any action,
including the furnishing of inform-
ation or the signing of agreements
which have the effect of further-
ing or supporting the restrictive
trade practices or boycotts fos-
tered or imposed by any foreign
country against another country
friendly to the United States."
Incorporated into the compro-
mise amendment was wording of-
fered by Rep. Halpern to strength-
en it. This provided that the Pres-
ident should be called upon to pro-
mulgate implementing rules and
regulations as soon as possible.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 11, 1965-5
German Paper Rapped
for 'Misuse of Freedom'
BONN (JTA)—A public call for
action against the "misuse of free-
dom of opinion" by the extremist
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Zeitung was issued by a group of
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long fought against the Soldaten
Zeitung for its misuse of freedom.
The Soldaten Zeitung was denounc-
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