Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter explains that the College Young Democratic Clubs of America condemned South African racism. Support the U.N.'s boycott measures to "put economic pressures on the Republic of South Africa in order to end its mockery of human decency...
...Alienation. The report assumes that the campus-rocking Free Speech Movement was an event with a meaning worth discovering. One of its discoveries was that 80% of the students generally agreed with the F.S.M. goals of greater political independence and less impersonal education. About half felt strongly enough to boycott classes, although 50% said they opposed some of the F.S.M. tactics. "The ease with which a majority of students could find, however ephemerally, a commitment and a moral drive in opposing the university administration is evidence of a widespread, if latent, alienation," the report says. Furthermore, the committee found, Berkeley...
...money thus made to subsidize their own farmers. Part of the subsidy is now paid out by the EEC treasury, part by the individual countries. The EEC commission's proposals to shift to a wholly EEC-controlled subsidy system was the immediate cause of the French boycott. Now a complicated compromise is in the making to pacify Charles de Gaulle, who insists on retaining national control of the funds...
...KENNEDY ROUND: The Geneva tariff negotiations, originally proposed by President Kennedy, and aimed at history's deepest international tariff cuts, have been stalled by the French boycott of EEC. The bargaining cannot resume until the EEC fixes its farm prices, because the U.S. insists that farm as well as industrial products be included. Europe is under pressure to move swiftly, because the law enabling the U.S. to negotiate expires July 1, 1967. Meantime, the Germans insist that they cannot afford to pay the EEC treasury big farm subsidies, which will chiefly enrich French farmers, unless their industries can profit...
...result of the Ivies' boycott of NCAA tournaments, Clarkson and B.U. will represent the East against the West's top two teams out in Minnesota regardless of the ECAC outcome. But wins by Brown and Cornell would reduce the East's entrants to the status of also-rans and dim the lustre of the NCAA finals...