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Jewish Groups
Pressure Japanese
(JTA) — Jewish groups
worried over a possible
Japanese company's boycott
of Israel may try to exert
pressure to stymie an $8
billion bid by a Japanese
company to purchase the
American entertainment
giant MCA Inc.
The potential purchaser is
the Matsushita Electric In-
dustrial Co., one of the
world's largest electronics
manufacturers, which has
consistently adhered to the
anti-Israel boycott.
MCA, which owns Univer-
sal Studios, Motown
Records, theme parks, real
estate and a successful tele-
vision division, is headed by
Chairman Lew Wasserman
and President Sidney
Sheinberg, both leading
Hollywood supporters of
Jewish and Israeli causes.
Another such supporter is
Michael Ovitz, chairman of
Creative Artists Agency,
which represents Mat-
sushita in the negotiations.
According to an Oct. 10
front-page article in the Los
Angeles Times, the Japanese
firm's boycott policy could
technically prevent it from
selling MCA's movies and
television shows to Israel, if
the deal goes through.
However, under U.S. law,
American companies are
forbidden to comply with the
boycott, even if they have
foreign owners.
Executives of both MCA
and Matsushita involved in
the secrecy-shrouded
negotiations declined official
comment on the boycott
problem.
However, unnamed
sources cited by the Times
said that MCA would not
break off negotiations over
the boycott issue, but in any
case would continue selling
to Israel even if acquired by
the Japanese firm. On the
other hand, Matsushita ex-
ecutives have shown no will-
ingness to discontinue their
compliance with the boycott.
As it stands now, it is ex-
pected that Jewish leaders
will try to quietly pressure
Mr. Wasserman to break off
the deal, if there is no
change in Matsushita's posi-
tion.
"It would not be inap-
propriate for Mr. Wasser-
man or any corporate exec-
utive to explore the implica-
tions of the boycott," said
Jess Hordes, Washington di-
rector of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith. "We'll try to alert
him to the possible problems
that could be created by
linking up with a company
with this kind of policy."
Both the Japanese firm
and MCA are giants in their
fields. Osaka-based Mat-
sushita, whose video, audio
and electronic products are
sold under the brand names
of Panasonic, Technics and
Quasar, reported profits of
$1.6 billion on sales of $44
billion during the last fiscal
year.
MCA, in 1989, had a net
income of $192 million on
revenues of $3.3 billion.
In practice, Panasonic pro-
ducts are widely available in
Israel, but only through
third-party American
distributors, said Will
Maslow of the American
Jewish Congress, which
publishes the Washington-
based Boycott Report.
According to the publica-
tion, Japan is "the worst
offender" among in-
dustrialized nations in com-
plying with the anti-Israel
boycott.
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I IN BRIEF I
DAVID LERNER, formerly
associated with the law firm
of Schlussel, Lifton, Simon,
Rands, Gavin and Jackier,
has joined the law firm of
Plunkett and Cooney in
Detroit.
HARVEY BERMAN, an at-
torney, has been named
chairperson of the State Bar
of Michigan's standing com-
mittee on Arbitration and
Alternative Methods of
Dispute Resolution. The
21-member statewide com-
mittee deals with the arbitra-
tion of commercial disputes,
laws concerned with arbitra-
tion, and the study of other
alternate methods of dispute
resolution.
WXYZ-TV/Channel 7 report-
er GUY GORDON has been
named co-anchor of Channel
7 Action News 6 p.m.
MARILYN MOSS has been
promoted from operations
manager to vice president of
PRN Services, Inc., a nation-
wide pharmaceutical sales
and distribution company
headquartered in Royal Oak.