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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
October 3, 1975 15
Confrontation in Administration, Congress
Is Seen Developing Over the Arab Boycott
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Moss (D-Calif.), the subcom- that the Commerce Depart-
A confrontation between mittee chairman, asked him ment is publicizing business
the Ford Administration why he had ignored a com- opportunities in Arab coun-
and Congress regarding the mittee subpoena for reports tries which require that
Arab boycott of American made by the companies to American firms bidding on
firms which deal with Israel the Commerce Department. these contracts participate
or which are managed by
The reports are believed in the Arab boycott.
Jews appears certain after to tell of contacts the com-
O'Hara describes these
Secretary of Commerce panies have had since 1969 Commerce Department ac-
Rogers Morton refused to with Arab nations seeking tions as "both morally re-
reveal the names of U.S. their support in the boy- pugnant and contrary to
companies that may be in- cott.
law."
volved in the boycott.
In releasing the text of his
Meanwhile, Congressman letter, O'Hara commented,
Morton has told the
House Commerce Commit- James G. O'Hara (D-Mich.) in reference to the Bnai
tee's subcommittee on over- has called upon Morton to Brith Anti-Defamation
sight and investigation that "assure that the Depart- 'League suit: "It shouldn't be
Attorney General Edward ment engages in no further necessary for private citi-
H. Levi had given him an actions that have the effect zens to sue the government
pinion that the law barred of cooperating with, or ac- in order to get the Executive
disclosure of "proprietary quiescing in," the Arab boy- Branch to carry out laws en-
information" unless the na- cott of Israel.
acted by Congress."
tional interest required it.
In a strongly worded let-
He made the statement ter, the Congressman said
Monday after Rep. John E. he was "shocked to learn"
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U.S. Firms Required to State
Intentions Toward Boycott
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The United States Depart-
ment of Commerce, under
pressure from Congress to
blunt the Arab boycott of
American firms doing busi-
ness with Israel or under
Jewish management, has
moved for the first time in
10 years towards insisting
on knowing whether an
American concern intends
to help the boycott, but it
continues to resist identifi-
cation of any company par-
ticipating in the boycott.
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Department will require
any exporter who gets a re-
quest to help the Arab boy-
cott to make that known to
the Department along with
his intention towards com-
plying with that request. Up
to now, the transfer of in-
formation on intention was
not mandatory.
The action on intention
was disclosed in a letter
from Secretary of Com-
merce Roger Morton to Rep.
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merce Committee probing
the Arab boycott and the
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panies, and to Sen. Adlai
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Morton's letters noted
that under the Export Reg-
ulations Act of 1965, a
company is asked but is
not required to indicate
whether it intends to reply
to the boycott request.
The Moss committee has
been probing into Depart-
ment of Commerce prac-
tices after receiving com-
plaints from Seymour
Graubad, national chair-
man of the Anti Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
U.S. Minimizes Sadat's
Remarks on Ford's Promises
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
U.S. Administration
spokesmen Monday sought
to minimize the statement
by Egyptian President An-
war Sadat that President
Ford had promised him he
would cause Israel to nego-
tiate with Syria and with
the Palestinians for a peace
settlement.
In a three-hour speech
Sunday, Sadat said that
Ford's promises are part of
secret Egyptian-American
appendices to the formal
Israeli-Egyptian Sinai ac-
cord.
Sadat's remarks came as
Aviation Week reported in
its current issue that the
U.S. has committed itself to
provide Egypt with $5 bil-
lion in military assistance
over the next five years.
that Israel will not attack
Syria, that a second disen-
gagement will be con-
cluded on the Syrian front
and that the Palestinians
will participate in a settle-
ment."
Presidential press secre-
tary Ron Nessen declared
that he did not feel Sadat
was making a "revelation."
Nessen noted that Ford
had said the U.S. would do
what it could to make prog-
ress on a settlement on the
Golan Heights and that the
U.S. is committed to helping
the process towards peace.
That, Nessen said, is the
subject of the negotiations.
State Department spokes-
man Robert Funseth said he
was "not in a position to
make a qualitative defini-
According to informa- tion of effort."
tion from Cairo, Sadat's
Regarding the Aviation
remarks translated into Week report, Funseth re-
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lowing statement: "I have had said the U.S. would give
got an undertaking from "consideration" to Egypt's
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