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...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...
...local union is handing out flyers accusing the Sheraton Commander Hotel of hiring non-union workers and asking visitors to boycott the establishment...
Several of LaVigne's teammates, among them, James Herberich '85, had threatened to boycott the Games in protest of LaVigne's removal from the team. In addition, the team's top two drivers, Brent Rushlaw and Matthew Roy, refused to put Gault on their sleds...
...free presidential elections in 30 years. When the polls opened again last week, the result was closer to farce. The country's four leading populist candidates refused to run, and less than 10% of Haiti's 3 million voters turned out for the election, which was held amid a boycott called by opposition leaders. Election officials examined each vote before dropping it in the box. Ballot stuffing appeared to be widespread...