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...violence, the A.N.C. voted unanimously to resume negotiations with the government and scale back its "mass action" campaign of marches and strikes. Unfortunately, this new coziness prompted a sometime De Klerk ally, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the KwaZulu homeland, to angrily announce his own boycott of the talks and warn of possibly more violence to come...
...death from cancer in 1989), Kushnick became the executive producer of the legendary Tonight show when her protege, Jay Leno, succeeded Johnny Carson in May. Then with an almost willful recklessness, Kushnick reportedly began demanding that stars who wanted to appear with Leno on the Tonight show had to boycott his competitors -- especially Arsenio Hall. The blatant violation of Hollywood's get along-go along culture led to the inevitable: Kushnick was ousted from her job by NBC last week. Leno said in a release that her removal was unwarranted, but otherwise kept silent -- perhaps realizing that the best thing...
...made the decision on his own as a response to the growing wave of protest against the album's distributor, Warner Bros. Records, and its parent company, Time Warner. The rapper claims that Warner Bros. Records staff members had received death threats. Police groups had called for a boycott not only of the album but of all Time Warner products. Some record stores had already pulled Body Count off their shelves...
Harvard's relation with foreign parties havedrawn some attention in recent years. TheUniversity recently reported to the InternalRevenue service that in fiscal year 1990, theMedical School refused a contract to provideservices to a Saudi Arabian hospital. The contractwould have required that the Medical Schoolcooperate with an international boycott of Israel
...there's a gross overreaction going on, building to a veritable paroxysm of white denial. A national boycott has been called, not just of the song or Ice-T, but of all Time Warner products. The President himself has denounced Time Warner as "wrong" and Ice-T as "sick." Ollie North's Freedom Alliance has started a petition drive aimed at bringing Time Warner executives to trial for "sedition and anarchy...