Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birmingham department stores, the students last month began to avoid Birmingham stores and go to nearby Tuscaloosa instead. They urged other Birmingham Negroes to forget new duds, to "wear old clothes for freedom," and to shop from mailorder catalogues. Anywhere else, the movement would be known as a boycott. But Alabama law specifically outlaws boycotts; so the Miles students call it a "selective buying campaign." By last week they could claim that it was 80% effective among Birmingham Negroes. As for Birmingham white merchants, said one: "Don't ask us how effective it is. Just tell...
...strict segregation ordinances. Said the segregationist Birmingham News: "It is time for Birmingham citizens to sit down and talk together." But Connor, running for Governor against popular "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...
...person per month; beans, 1½ lbs.; soap, one cake ("I believe it will suffice if used economically," said Castro); eggs, five. Meat is restricted to ¾ lb. per week (enough for three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with a strange mixture of Marxist-Leninist self-criticism and the regal We. "Only a few months ago, we made formal promises of commitments we have not carried out," said Castro...
...sharp example of Europe's mood came last week when Walt Whitman Rostow, chairman of the State Department's policy planning board, journeyed to Paris to explain Washington's new economic boycott of Fidel Castro's Cuba to the NATO Council-and to urge the U.S.'s allies to impose similar bans on shipments of strategic goods to Havana. Rostow's motives were harshly criticized. Asked the Dutch: Why should we embargo sales of arms to Castro when the U.S. is furnishing Indonesia's Sukarno with guns? Headlined the London Times sarcastically...
After 16 months of lonely quarantine, the Dominican Republic last week was welcomed back into the hemisphere's family of nations. Meeting in its marbled Washington headquarters, the Organization of American States voted 20 to 0 (Cuba abstaining) to lift the diplomatic boycott and partial trade embargo applied to late Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Caribbean fief...