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Arab League Blacklists 75 Ships for Ignoring Anti-israel Boycott

August 20, 1959
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Seventy-five more ships, including vessels flying the flags of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany, Greece, Norway and Denmark, have been placed on the Arab League’s blacklist for ignoring the League’s anti-Israel boycott.

According to a report received here today, the additions to the blacklist were made at the last meeting of the Arab boycott committee at Beirut, Lebanon, which preceded at the Arab parley on Mr. Hammarskjold’s recommendations for the resettlement of the Palestine refugees.

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