Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks of this month, the Japanese will probably net up to 7,000,000 of them. Since 12 million must be spared for spawning, this gives U.S. fishermen a chance at less than half the crop. They have reacted by firing off telegrams to Washington calling for a boycott of Japanese products, and protesting Japanese "piracy" by picketing Japanese ships and airline offices. They have also organized an automobile-sticker campaign: "Save our fish. Boycott Japan...
Alaskan Rivers. Washington officials warned that a boycott could have a severe backlash in Japan, which imports more goods from the U.S. each year ($1.9 billion) than it exports to the U.S. ($1.7 billion). The U.S. State Department, noting tactfully that the Japanese are within the letter of the law, also called on Japanese fishermen to show moderation in working their nets. While the controversy continued, more than 200 Japanese catcher boats busily worked on the permissible side of the 175th degree of longitude. On the coast, U.S. fishermen waited anxiously to see how many sockeye would survive the journey...
Passe. The sophisticates of OCAM voted to boycott the September meeting of African chiefs of state because it is to be held in Ghana. They will also stay away from this month's important Afro-Asian summit meeting in Algiers. "We consider Afro-Asianism a little passe," Senegal's respected President Leopold Senghor declared. Added President Philibert Tsiranana of the Malagasy Republic: "Especially if it means Chinese subversion in our countries...
...state aid for education. A month ago, in a referendum, the electorate decisively defeated a 10 boost in the state sales tax (presently 20 per dollar) that would have raised Oklahoma's niggardly education outlays. Encouraged by what it believes to be a significant victory in its recent boycott of Utah, the 940,000-member National Education Association responded by undertaking to strip Oklahoma of teachers. Teachers are being helped to move to other jobs, and out-of-state teachers are warned away...
Church leaders admit that it is somewhat easier to set such a policy than to enforce it. Because of their decentralized structures, most Protestant bodies have to rely on persuasion rather than what they shudder to hear called a boycott, and local churches have had little luck in trying to go it alone. When one racially mixed Presbyterian church in St. Louis insisted on a fair-employment clause in a contract to renovate its sanctuary and build a new community house, it spent months trying to find a contractor willing to cooperate. Even then, difficulties were encountered-such as pipes...