Irked by the fact that the six-member European Common Market signed an agreement with Israel this summer, giving Israel certain concessions in regard to exports to those countries, the Arab League Economic Council has decided to tighten its anti-Israel boycott in such a way as to try to keep Israeli products from “infiltrating” into Europe, Cairo dispatches received here reported today.
The League’s Economic Council, backed by the Arab Boycott Office, has been holding sessions in Cairo to try to work out methods for frustrating the Israel-Euromart agreement. A communique issued at the conclusion of the council’s session stated that “a positive plan” barring Israeli goods from Arab countries has been worked out. The six Euromart countries are France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Another dispatch, from the Boycott Office headquarters at Beirut, announced that Sophia Loren, the film star, has been put on the blacklist. The announcement stated that all of her films will be banned from Arab countries, unless she withdraws from the cast of a new film, “Judith, ” now being filmed in Israel.
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