Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state-run news agency PAP said more than nine million people attended official May Day ceremonies throughout the country and "attempts to boycott the May Day demonstrations ended up yet again with a complete fiasco...
...same. They've tried terrorist acts against us. They've tried military wars. They've tried an economic boycott. Everything has failed. This is a new form of warfare. And it will fail again because, if they want peace, they have first of all to quell these disturbances, because under this pressure, this violence, you cannot negotiate with anybody...
...combative Mecham drew fire for rescinding a Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, a move that prompted a boycott of Arizona by organizations looking to hold conventions in Arizona, and defended the use of the word "pickaninny" for Black children. He also came under attack for appointments deemed unqualified, including a tax official who didn't file his taxes...
...June of last year, Sullivan said that the policy of "constructive engagement" in South Africa, which his principles seemed to endorse, had failed. He has since called for a complete economic boycott of South Africa...
...Americans provide the revenues that have allowed drug traffickers to subvert legitimate government in much of the hemisphere, a process described in this week's stories. "We seldom acknowledge this," she says. "We still talk about using drugs as a matter of personal choice. We smoke dope, while we boycott Chilean asparagus, California lettuce and South African diamonds. But we are responsible for creating an exploitative, murderous force...