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A' fact sheet on the new law issued by the While House said that"the legisla- tion will prohibit most forms of compliance with unsanctioned foreign boy- cotts without unnecessarily jeopardizing U.S. political and commercial interests in the Middle East." It also pointed out that "U.S. persons receiving boy- cott-related requests" are required to report them to the Secretary of Com- merce, and that such re- ports will continue to be re- quired to be made publicly available except for certain SAIL-SALE YOU CAN_WIN A SAIL BOAT AT ART MORAN'S . SALE 3 Sunfish sail boats given away contest will be held July 1, 1977 ' NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN -NO OBLIGATION AL STEINBERG 29300 TELEGRAPH !JUST NORTH_ TEL TWELVE MALL I business confidential infor- mation." The legislation, which will be enforced by the De- partment of Commerce, pre-empts foreign • boycott laws enacted by state legis- latures. A half dozen states had enacted laws in ad- vance of the present federal law. Meanwhile. General Motors Corp., Westinghouse Electric Co. and General Electric Co. were among 47 firms cleared of suspicion of doing business with Is- rael by the Arab League's boycott organization. A GM spokesman said the com- pany is not changing its dealings with Israel. The report came from a communique issued at the end of the league's 12-day conference in Egypt during which five American com- panies and seven from Asia. Africa and Europe were added to the blacklist while 10 companies were taken off the list. The league also declared it would suspend shipments of raw materials from 20 Arab countries to com- panies placed on its black- list. Commission chief Mo- hammed Mahgoub said the embargo was the commis- sion's response to anti-boy- cott legislation passed by the U.S. Congress June 10. The proposed law was sign- ed Wednesday. It imposes stiff penalties on American companies that refuse to do business with firms black- listed by the Arabs, or that use the boycott to discrimi- nate against other U.S. firms on the basis of race, religion, color, sex or na- tional origin. It would, however, permit U.S. firms and citizens oper- ating in a foreign country that is boycotting Israel to comply with local laws and customs in certain circum- stances. According to the New York Times. the following United States companies have been blacklisted: Hon- eywell Inc., of Minneapolis, •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PfrALAN'S ENS BON' CUSTOM INVITES OUR CUSTOMERS TO A MEN'S SHOE • French Shriner • Freeman • Pierre Cardin • -Verde • Wm. Joyce • HushPuppy • Volare • Imports • Yves Saint Laurent and others 20% to 40% OFF Starting FRIDAY, JUNE 24th WILMS ENS BOOT NEW ORLEANS MALL at 10 MILE & GREENFIELD Mon., Thurs., Fri. -9:30 -8:30 Tues., Wed., Sat. -9:30 -6:00 THANK YOU. . 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Officers of Honeywell and Garlock said that their corn- panies did some business with Israel and in the Middle East but that they had no major projects or plants there. Sam La Conte, the gener- al manager of Tropar, said that being put on the list was a "mystery and revela- tion" to him. He said that the company, which makes trophies. plaques and gift awards, did not have any orders from Israel or other Middle Eastern countries. He said that the company . did not have any top offi- cers- of Jewish descent, for- merly a reason for being put on the boycott list. What was equally puz- zling to some observers was that while the new corn- panies with only _small amount of busine-s-swith Is- rael -were being put on the list others—GM, West- inghouse and General Elec- tric—which do a significant amount of business with Is; rael, have been "cleared." Mahgoub said that GM, Westinghouse and GE had been "cleared" after sub- mitting proof that they had no business ties with Israel. GM and Westinghouse have said that they do have deal- ings with Israel, as well as Arab nations. "So long as they not have plants in Israel that use Is- raeli labor and thus help the economy, it is fine," Mahgoub explained. "If they • want to trade, that does not affect us." The organization black- lists companies which it ac- cuses of helping the Israeli war effort by investing in development projects. A firm is removed from the blacklist if it proves it closed down operations in Israel and has started one in an Arab country instead. In a related development, the Arab boycott confer- ence on June 9 banned the Masons because some of them reportedly plan to hold a conference in Israel this year. Masons here said they know of no specific Masonic conference but Masonic groups generally visit Is- rael on tours. Majgoub said the Masons have refused to hold their conference out- side of Israel. "This movement (Masons) worked for Israel and sponsors the Zionist movement under the cover of an international social movement." he said. claim- ing that the conference would draw thousands of visitors to Israel and help its economy. Masons in the U.S. noted the peculiar linkage be- tween the anti-Masonic ban coming from the Arab meet- ing in "Alexandria, Egypt. and the fact that Alexan- dria, Va., is the site of the National Masonic Shrine to George Washington, a lead-' ing Mason in his day. The Masonic fraternity,_ which originated in Britain and has lodges in many na- tions. has numerous Jews in its membership. Jews have been long active par- ticularly in the Shriners, a - charitable organization that is part of the fraternity. In New York, the Ameri- can Jewish Congress said thdt there was not "one shred of evidence' to sup- port a recent claim by an official of the Port Author- ity of New York and New Jersey that the Port of New York suffered a loss of ex- port cargoes because of New York State's anti-boy- cott law that went into ef- fect early in 1976. Naomi Levine. executive director of the AJCongress, accused Clifford B. O'Hara, the Port Authority's direc- tor of port commerce of pre- senting a "grossly in- accurate and distorted pic- ture." O'Hara said at the semi- annual meeting of the North Atlantic Ports Associ- ation in Newport. R.I.. last week that the Port of. New York lost roughly 300.000 tons of export cargo since 1976. largely because of the legislation aimed at counter- ing the effects of the Arab boycott of Israel on Ameri- can business. He said the port had little chance of regaining_the lost business despite the new federal anti-boycott law, to be signed by President Car- ter. which would equalize competition for Arab busi- ness. But Levine said that O'Hara's claim was "with- out foundation" and sugges- ted that "blaming the anti- boycott law has the unfortu- nate result of diverting pub- lic attention from the real and serious problems fac- ing the Port of New York." She cited Census Bureau figures made available to the AJCongress by the Port Authority's Planning and Development Department which showed that export tonnage from New York to Arab countries actually in- creased after the anti-boy- cott law went into effect. Levine said that in 1976. ocean-going export cargoes to Arab states, except Leba- non. from the Port of New York totalled 274,634 long tons compared to 253.763 long tons in 1975. She noted a marked increase of air cargoes to Arab states. _ 4 I 4 1 I -• 1 1