The Arab League announced yesterday new plans for intensifying its nine-year-old economic boycott of Israel, according to a dispatch received here today.
The League’s economic committee recommended that the Arab states blacklist all firms which provide Israel with any goods or services. It further asked that a unified boycott system be established to insure that no Arab goods reach Israel or Israeli products be accepted in the Arab states through third parties.
(In an editorial comment on the suggestions for intensification of the Arab boycott, the New York Times today urged the Arabs to go slow. If not, it declared, “it would seem time for the United Nations to rouse itself and take action which it should have taken a long time ago to enforce respect for its principles and its decisions.”)
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