22 Friday, March 30,1919
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Saudis Threaten Canada Trade
Over Ontario's Anti-Boycott Law
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OTTAWA (JTA) — A
threat by a counselor of the
Saudi Arabian Embassy,
Omar Bamanie, that
Canada would lose millions
of dollars of contracts with
Saudi Arabia because of an
Ontario law against com-
plying with the Arab
boycott, has split the Cana-
dian government on the
issue of how to deal with the
problem.
Bamanie said that the
law, which was passed last
• November, has already re-
sulted in the Saudis tight-
ening up on issuing entry
visas to Canadian
businessmen. He warned
that this could be followed
with Saudi Arabia refusing,
to do any business with
Canadian companies.
The new law makes it an
offense for companies in the
Province of Ontario to com-
ply with the Arab boycott of
Israel, with high fines for
the violators.
Federal Trade Minister
Jack Horner said
Canada was losing•ralu-
able sales in Saudi
Arabia. He said, "That
legislation is costing us
trade, causing difficulty
in the banking fraternity
and goes much farther
than the provincial
authorities intended."
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Saudi Arabia is Canada's
major trading partner in the
Middle East. Last year,
Canada's exports to Saudi
Arabia totaled $234 million
while export-8-A° Israel were
just $76 million.
"This is your problem, not
ours," Bamanie said in an
interview published in the
Toronto Globe and Mail.
"We can go anywhere with
our business and deal with
responsible people of other
countries. If you are going to
say you cannot boycott this
or that, then we can go any-
where."
He noted that Bell
Canada had a large con-
tract, along with two other
international companies, to
build a modern telephone
system in Saudi Arabia.
"We can give that business
to two other countries and
this is against your benefit,"
Bamanie said.
Bell signed a $1.1 bil-
lion five-year contract
with the Saudi govern-
ment in January 1977 to
provide the technology
for the project while the
Swedish Ericcson Co.
and the Dutch Phillips
Co. supply the equip-
ment.
Defense Minister Barnett
Danson, the only Jewish
minister in the federal
cabinet, said that he was
surprised that the Saudis
had singled out the Ontario
legislature "when they have
not reacted to the much
longer standing anti-
boycott legislation in the
United States."
He also said the federal
bill would make it mandat-
ory for. any Canadian com-
pany asked to participate in
the boycott to report the re-
quest to the federal gov-
ernment.
Under existing law, a
company need not report
a boycott request unless
the company requires
federal assistance to ful-
fill an overseas contract.
Such assistance would be
denied if the firni agrees
to boycott Israel.
The penalty for not re-
porting a request for a
boycott will be up to $250 a
day fines in the pending
legislation.
Danson said the federal
government was deter-
mined to pursue its efforts
to strengthen, existing fed-
eral anti-boycott legisla-
tion. He also said that the
federal bill to be submitted
soon to the House of Com-
mons is nevertheless con-
siderably weaker than the
Ontario legislation, being
one "with more substance
and less bravado." Danson
was understood to mean the
proposed federal legislation
would be less challenging to
the boycott.
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Bomb Blasts Wound Many
in Treaty Signing Aftermath
PARIS (JTA) — A power-
ful bomb exploded Tuesday
in a Jewish student's res-
taurant wounding 26
people, three- of whom are
described in a critical condi-
tion. An organization de-
scribing itself as "opposed to
Zionist influence in France
and the Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty'? assumed re-
sponsibility for the attack.
The bomb exploded
shortly after 12:30, but be-
fore the rush hour started.
There were only 40 people
in the restaurant at the
time of the attack. Half an
hour later, more than 150
students normally crowd
into the Latin Quarter
Kosher Canteen.
Minutes after the explo-
sion, police units rushed to
other Jewish communal
centers in Paris evacuating
them. More than 300 people
were asked to leave Paris'
main communal center
"The Rashi" as they were
about to start their meal.
Other Jewish organizations
were advised by the police to
take special precautions as
"additional ,attacks are
possible."
Buses with French riot
police were also rushed
to the Israeli Embassy,
the Jewish Agency, El Al
and other offices associ-
ated with Israel. Police
officials privately said
that more attacks might
be attempted in -coming
days or hours.
The PLO representative
in France, Ibrahim Suss,
said that his organization is
not responsible for the at-
tack. He said, "We shall
wage our battle in the occu-
pied territories and not in
France." Suss said he is
sending a message of condo-
lences to the French chief
rabbi to express his and the
PLO's "sympathy and re-
grets."' Suss also ruled out
the possibility that ex-
tremist Palestinian ele-
ments carried out the attack
saying this "seems to be the
work of anti-Semitic local
forces."
Earlier Tuesday a shop
owned by a Jewish family
situated in the center of
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Paris near the "Place De
L'Opera" had its window
broken. The owners David
and Rosette Azoulay, them-
selves immigrants from
Egypt, said they weren't
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threatened. The attack took
place at 4 a.m. when the 4 .
business area is deserted.
Police sources believe the
attack might be linked with
Monday's Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty as the shop,
which specializes in tax-free
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gifts for tourists, is reg-
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ularly used by El Al crews
and many Israeli tourists.
Meanwhile, one
woman was killed and 20
4
people injured when a
bomb exploded Tuesday
in a Lod vegetable mar-
ket.
The victims were rushed
to nearby hospitals and
police detained for question-
ing a number of Arabs who
were in the vicinity.
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