Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Portuguese elections are affairs quite unlike any other political activity in the West. Those who show up at the polls, as 65 per cent of the electorate is supposed to have done this year, register their votes for the regime calmly and without much interest. Those who actively boycott the election or who support opposition groups may shout and run about at the time, but after November settle once again into silence...
...Southern Student Freedom Fund will be administreed by Walter Williams, former student body president at Jackson State College in Mississippi. Williams was expelled last week for leading a boycott of classes...
...keep Spain out of World War II, but his sympathies lay with the Axis (he even sent a division of infantry to fight Russia). In 1946, the new United Nations, determined to bring down the last fascist dictator in Europe, cut him off from the world by imposing a boycott which lasted five years. Spaniards, always resentful of foreign meddling, immediately united behind the Caudillo. From his palace at El Pardo near Madrid, Franco thumbed his nose at the West, saying that the West would eventually come around...
Presumably the Faculty recommendation will be presented to the Corporation, which undoubtedly will continue the present policy of boycott...
...smoothly as De Gaulle had hoped. In Villefranche-de-Rouergue, the mayor demanded "social justice and democratic liberty." Throughout the department of Aveyron, teachers and veterans boycotted his appearances. But in general, despite a boycott ordered by farm and labor unions, De Gaulle got a rousing welcome. As his convoy of black Citroëns wound through patches of woodlands tinged with autumn, past slate-roofed farmhouses, farmers and their families came to the edges of their fields to wave and doff their berets; and at crossroads, schoolchildren fluttered paper flags. Once again, De Gaulle showed that despite sporadic signs...