Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatle record on his radio station. KTEE, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, announced a similar policy "until Lennon retracts." KZEE, in Weatherford, Texas, damned their songs "eternally." By week's end, dozens of U.S. stations and others as far away as Spain and South Africa had joined the boycott. Some even proposed bonfires where listeners might incinerate Beatle disks, books and memorabilia...
Everyone at Washington's press lunch knew how Saudi Arabia's King Feisal would reply to a reporter's query about the Arab boycott of U.S. firms doing business with Israel. "Unfortunately," said Feisal, "Jews support Israel, and we consider those who provide assis tance to our enemies as our own enemies." Feisal's comment went down as smoothly as couscous...
...that point, Ky balked. Tri Quang's response at week's end: threat of a complete Buddhist boycott of the September elections unless Ky quits now. Otherwise, he said, "the Americans and their servants would establish a militaristic national assembly." If Tri Quang's usually pear-shaped tones lost some of their resonance, it was because, for all the week's burnt offerings to the Buddhist cause, Premier Ky still had the upper hand in a nation beginning to weary of pointless civil strife amid a genuine, far more deadly battle for national survival against...
...from the volume of phone calls and telegrams urging him on, the people did indeed desire Herman for Governor. On the other hand, a small, influential group representing banks, textile manufacturers and cotton interests strongly urged the former Governor (1948-55) to stay in Washington-or face a financial boycott of his campaign...
...most aggressive of the civil rights groups, sometimes appalling older outfits by its sheer bullheadedness. As legal barriers to Negro freedom dropped some S.N.C.C. leaders appeared to reject cooperation with whites as a kind of treasonous collaboration. Before the Alabama primary earlier this month, they even urged Negroes to boycott the election and to give their votes to independent Negro candidates in November...