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- <text id=93TT1350>
- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: Caught in the Act
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- BUSINESS
- Caught in the Act
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Baxter pleads guilty to complicity with the Arab boycott of
- Israel
- </p>
- <p> Though it has been against the law since 1977 for American
- firms to cooperate with the Arab boycott of Israel, the Clinton
- Administration has sent U.S. companies a strong reminder by
- levying the first criminal penalty in such a case. Baxter
- International, the world's largest hospital supplier, pleaded
- guilty to violating provisions of the law that forbids U.S.
- companies to provide the Arab League with information about
- their dealings with Israel. The U.S. government, which began
- investigating the matter three years ago, fined Baxter $500,000
- in the case. Baxter will pay an additional $5,959,000 to settle
- separate civil proceedings. The company is also proscribed from
- doing business with Syria and Saudi Arabia for two years.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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