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...documentary" dealing with the 1977 executions of a married 19-year-old Saudi princess and her young lover, prompted angry blasts from top Congressmen and some of PBS'S biggest corporate backers, as well as much top-level squirming in the State Department. The cause: a sharply negative review from the Saudi Arabian government, which protested that the show presented a "completely false" picture of the desert kingdom and warned that it could "undermine the internationally significant relations" between the U.S. and its largest oil supplier...
After Princess was shown in Britain last month, the Saudis demanded the recall of the British ambassador and threatened a review of the two nations' economic relations: no small matter, since the British sell nearly $2 billion worth of goods annually to the Saudis and rely on them for about 10% of their oil. To avert a similar predicament in Sweden, a private firm bought rights to the film, then promptly shelved it to "protect Swedish business interests...
...would not try to inhibit its being shown by threatening to cut off its PBS spending. Mobil, another PBS angel and Aramco partner, ran an ad on the New York Times's Op-Ed page denouncing the film as "a fairy tale" and urging PBS management to "review its decision" to run the film "in the light of what is in the best interests of the U.S." But again, there was no economic arm twisting...
...last month, a group of 94 unaffiliated dealers calling themselves Ohio Independents for Survival filed a complaint with DOE'S Office of Hearings and Appeals. After a speedy review, the department ordered Sohio to raise its prices 100 per gal. to more nearly equal the prices charged by the independents. Top White House officials, worried about the impact the ruling might have on Ohio voters in that state's June 3 presidential primary, expressed their displeasure to DOE. The department then quickly overruled the Office of Hearings and Appeals decision and reversed the reversal. It is now considering...
...resolutions supported by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) included setting up a review committee to forbid Caterpillar Tractor from selling its products to South African military police--a resolution ACSR turned down last year. The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which lets ACSR do its research for it, abstained on the resolution because it said the situation in South Africa had not changed enough in the past year to warrant a new policy...