Word: americans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...become Treasury Secretary, Wriston would have had to sell $2.3 million worth of stock in the parent company of Citibank, which has claims against the assets that Iran wants to trade for return of the American hostages and which participates in Government-guaranteed loans to New York City and Chrysler Corp. At week's end, Wriston's aides said that he was not interested...
...companies and network officials. Says Alfred Schneider of ABC, the network that the campaign finds most offensive: "If you lose advertisers, that is an indirect form of censorship. When there's a threat of a boycott, there is a chilling effect." Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "We believe we are facing a major struggle with these groups over the Bill of Rights." Replies John Hurt, a Tennessee minister who is leading the crusade: "We are not trying to censor anybody at all. We are not trying to say you have to follow...
...what it considers to be distasteful TV programs. Hurt's congregations deemed the five most offensive shows to be Soap (ABC), Three's Company (ABC), Dallas (CBS), Saturday Night Live (NBC) and Charlie's Angels (ABC). The chief sponsors of these programs were General Foods Corp., American Home Products and the Warner-Lambert...
...American Home Products refused to negotiate with Hurt. General Foods talked with him, but would not stop advertising on Dallas, Charlie's Angels or Three's Company. Says a spokesman...
...refusal of General Foods and American Home Products to cooperate intensified the boycott. In October the Joelton congregation began distributing some 5 million boycott forms to interested churches, mainly in the Bible Belt. The local church distributes the forms to members. The forms are returned to the pastor, who sends them back to Joelton. Hurt then informs the targeted companies how many people are participating...