Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the British boycott of tobacco, Rhodesians were still planting it in hopes that by the time their crops mature next April they will be able to find a market. Despite stringent trade and currency restrictions designed to undercut the Rhodesian pound, the new nation's hard currency reserves actually increased by $2,224,000 last week. The settlers might grumble at Smith's austerity taxes, which sent the price of Scotch whisky up to $5.46 a bottle, but the majority of them still supported him -and resented what they considered British treachery at trying to force them...
Jagan continues trying to stir the old racial fires, went so far as to boycott the constitutional conference. Burnham merely ignores him, and with Finance Minister Peter D'Aguiar, head of a small multiracial party, has helped work out a constitution that offers the hope of a prosperous, stable and democratic future. Elections will be held under a system of proportional representation. To broaden the government base even more, the Prime Minister will be required to consult with the opposition on such matters as key appointments in public service and the judiciary. Guyana, as the new nation will call...
...effort "to get the rogue elephant back under control"-as the Times of London last week described British sanctions against Rhodesia-will not be easy. Ever since the League of Nations in 1935 attempted the first international sanction against Italy, punishing other nations by commercial or financial boycott has been like stalking elephants with air rifles...
...launch itself into a world all but unanimous in its hostility. Instead of the customary cheers at the birth of a new nation, the U.N. General Assembly voted 102 to 2 to condemn it. Amid cries from African nations for military intervention, the Security Council called for a diplomatic boycott against "this illegal racist minority regime." In London, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson went before a tense House of Commons to brand the declaration as "unwarranted and unnecessary rebellion" and lay down sanctions against the Smith regime. "Heaven knows what crimes will be committed against the concept of the rule...
Gartland is no flaming radical. He is an insurance broker, Irish and Roman Catholic, born and raised in Boston. He admits privately that de facto segregation never bothered him until the school boycott of 1963, when he was already serving on the school committee. His concern first manifested itself when, as a minority of one, he proposed that the school committee discuss the boycott leaders' grievances. After the second school boycott in February, 1964, Gartland finally succeeded in mustering the two additional votes necessary to bring about a meeting. Gartland finally succeeded in mustering the two additional votes necessary...