Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON--State Department Officials here feel that South Vietnam's boycott of the new phase of the Paris peace talks beginning Wednesday will probably not hold up negotiations for a ceasefire and withdrawal of foreign troops from Vietnam...
...consumers in order to create an identity for themselves. He cited the success of his efforts to force the 40 A & P stores in Chicago's black neighborhoods to hire black managers and invest their profit in black banks as proof that blacks could gain tangible advantages from consumer boycott tactics...
...peace, even though they had reservations about him in other respects. As they see it, Johnson went on to adopt Barry Goldwater's war policies. This time, they see no significant differences between the candidates on Viet Nam. To register a moral protest, many war dissenters plan to boycott the polls entirely on the theory that a huge nonvote will somehow shock the new Ad ministration, or at least free dissenters from complicity in electing Nixon or Humphrey, both of whom vaguely promise only "an honorable peace...
...another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step in a military effort...
...hours after the police left, 3000 people rallied and called for a class boycott today followed by an official strike by students Monday. The United Federation of Teachers, the teaching assistants' union, has also called on its members to boycott today and strike Monday...