Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does any man of God, though his intentions are good and his boons indisputable, have to seek sinners quite so flamboyantly? Nevada's Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno gave his answer when he advised Catholics to boycott places of such "filthy and immoral" entertainment. Crowley took it in stride. Comparing last week's sendoff "bash" with the modest welcoming reception planned for his successor, he ruefully noted: "It is evidently much better to be leaving Las Vegas than to be coming here...
...debate veered back and forth between East-West differences and the Franco-Tunisian dispute, the Assembly dwindled to as few as one-third of its 99 members. The delegation from France never appeared at all, since Charles de Gaulle had ordered a U.N. boycott. Presumably to underscore French indifference, word was passed that none of the French delegates even planned to listen to the session on radio. The biggest blow for President Charles de Gaulle came when all eleven African states of the normally pro-French Brazzaville group decided to vote against France...
Tobacco for Tampa. A trickle of trade between Cuba and the U.S. remains-$30 million in the first six months of this year. Because of a U.S. Longshoremen's Association boycott, all cargoes to or from Cuba are handled at small, non-union docks in the U.S. They travel in foreign ships and small, privately owned U.S. vessels. The biggest regular shipping center is Tampa, Fla.. where two converted World War II landing craft make the Havana run every week or so. The bulk of U.S. imports is tobacco-$11.3 million worth during the first half...
Despite the News's defection. Knight's exported trouble was over at week's end. Claiming that the picketers were guilty of imposing a secondary boycott, the Free Press won a court injunction against the Miamians, hustled back into print...
...twelve days' meditation. Too soon to get up steam about Berlin, he told everyone. As for Bizerte. the news that the Afro-Asian bloc got the 50 states needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly brought only the cold reply that France would boycott it. What really troubled De Gaulle was Algeria...