Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjournment order provides for the legislature to reconvene briefly in September to reconsider any vetoed legislation, but it prohibits enactment of any new legislation. Unruh, no friend of Fellow Democrat Burns, called assemblymen to meet in defiance of the order. Despite a Republican boycott, the Democrats managed to pass two bills whose legality is thus automatically in question. Since one of the bills benefits workers injured on their jobs, Unruh expects labor unions to try to prove their validity in court...
...threatened black boycott of the Olympics...
...school's administration has refused to intercede in behalf of the students. The student body, meanwhile voted 430-76 to take money from their student fees to aid the legal expense of the accused students. The administration did not release this money, however, until students staged a one day boycott of classes and demanded that the funds be released...
...Quite. The reason for this uncharacteristic flurry was a vote on a Labor government order tightening Britain's economic boycott of Rhodesia. Though Labor has a comfortable 72-vote majority in the House of Commons, Conservative hereditary peers dominate the Lords, which still has the power to delay for one year legislation passed by the House of Commons...
Snipes & Snarls. Exactly what angered Venetian students about the Biennale has not so far been clearly explained. Three months ago, they occupied the studios at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture, began demanding a boycott of the Biennale on the grounds that it was a "capitalist" institution. Early this month, demonstrators in Milan occupied the Triennale building, housing a 13-nation exhibit of architecture and design. Though they were evicted by police, the event apparently unnerved the Venice Biennale's steering committee so much that it "postponed" the opening of two major historical exhibits...