Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Indonesians trusted Dr. Djuanda; they did not trust Sukarno's pro-Red ministers. Principal target of criticism was Stalin Peace Prizewinner Prijono, whom Sukarno named Minister of Education. Opposition politicians (including the powerful Moslem anti-Communist Masjumi Party, Indonesia's second largest, which ordered a boycott of the Cabinet), objected to at least three other Communist-line ministers...
...CARGO PACTS, under which truck lines agree to boycott shipments going to or from plant that is struck or branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are heading for big setback. ICC is expected to accept its examiner's recommendation to cancel operating permits of truck lines that refuse to handle hot freight...
Weary and footsore, the Negro workers of Johannesburg climbed aboard the buses to ride to their jobs for the first time in twelve weeks. Their boycott had been a muted and melancholy protest against a one penny rise in fare (TIME. Feb. 25). Their inadequate diet made it hard for them to walk the 20 miles a day and also work a full shift; their low incomes left many without proper shoes or raincoats for the long trudge, yet 145,000 Negroes had honored the boycott in a demonstration of unity such as South Africa had never seen before...
...concessions: they might, in return for making the arrangement two-way instead of unilateral, firm up the contractual status of the agreement. But Nasser no longer faced the threat of armed attack by Britain or France, and Britain's Foreign Office acknowledged privately that any attempt at economic boycott could not be long maintained in the face of bitter opposition from shipping companies watching their competitors steam through the canal...
...most of its influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment of its bases and installations there-Britain can only urge that the U.S. do what the British would like to see done, i.e., boycott the reopened Suez canal if Nasser makes any difficulty about tolls or free passage for ships of all nations...