Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time being, however, the King and the Socialist need each other. To head off a threatened boycott of moderate leaders that could ruin next month's Afro-Asian Summit Conference in Algiers, Ben Bella badly needs to change his image as an agent of subversion and revolution. How better to do so than by appearing friendly to his good neighbor Hassan, who is influential among the moderates of both...
Advertising Boycott. Meanwhile, there have been feeble attempts to supply Baltimore with an interim newspaper. The Guild puts out a small daily tabloid, the Baltimore Banner, for which Sun staffers scrape up news from radio and television. But local merchants, friendly to the Sun, provide little advertising and the Banner is losing more than $4,000 a week. A second daily, the New Baltimore Morning Herald, published by Johns Hopkins students' with coed assistance on weekends, has also been hard put to find advertising in a town where the Sun has long been king. But the city...
...Ambassador to Bonn Andrei Smirnov insolently sent out invitations to a massive reception " to celebrate the victory of the Soviet people in the great patriotic war." Acidly, the Palais Schaumburg said that attendance would show "lack of dignity." So few Germans sent back R.S.V.P.s that Smirnov formally protested the boycott to the German Foreign Ministry...
Britain has warned that it would regard U.D.I, as "rebellion," break relations with the outlaw regime and impose an economic boycott, which would throw thousands of whites out of work and send the economy into a tailspin. Opposition Leader David Butler, 37, a wealthy tobacco farmer, was well aware of the consequences. "The Rhodesian way of life would be ruined by U.D.I.," he warned. "It is a way of life that depends on economic prosperity...
...boycott of Boston schools 14 months ago by nearly 20,000 students prompted the state Board of Education to set up the special committee to study de facto segregation in March 1964. The boycott, the second in the city, emphasized the growing bitterness between civil rights groups and the Boston School Committee. which refused to recognize that segregation existed in the city's schools...