Word: boycotters
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...months ago, however, several outstanding black athletes decided to risk sacrificing the success athletic achievement might bring. Led by a sociology professor from California, they voted to boycott the 1968 Olympics. As world record holding sprinter Tommie Smith said, they were willing to give up participation in the Games, "if it means that it will open a channel by which the oppression and injustice suffered by [our] people in America can be alleviated...
This is a unique boycott, because it doesn't punish the discriminating institution. When Martin Luther King boycotted bus lines in the South, the bus line, under white pressure as well as black, eventually acceded to his demands that Negroes be allowed to sit in the front, and the boycott was termined. But the proposed Olympic boycott, which is aimed of course not at the Games but at the American society, would have little effect on discrimination in the United States...
Suppose the Negroes go through with the boycott (and it is by no means clear that a large number will). The United States will probably win anywhere from 5 to 10 medals fewer than in 1964, when Negroes won 16. It is unlikely that the international audience--a main target of the boycotters--will be jarred by the protest, because there will be some Negroes competing; sprinter Charlie Greene has said, "It comes down to a matter if you're an American or if you're not. I'm an American and I'm going to run." 1964 medal winner...
That ended the diplomatic boycott that foreign nations had imposed on the Athens regime since King Constantine fled to Rome last December after his abortive coup. From now on, the junta will be able to conduct the business of state just like any other government, and the junta-appointed regent will be recognized as head of state by other nations until the King returns. The action undercut King Constantine's bargaining position with the junta, but he kept silent...
...Whatever difficulties may arise between the governments of France and the U.S.A. [Dec. 29], I shall remain faithful to my many American friends. Even if some of your readers advocate a boycott of French products, I shall keep on wearing Arrow shirts, drinking bourbon and reading TIME magazine. I hope the plain people of our countries will not be carried away in an escalade of mistrust and retaliation...