Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bound traffic on busy Mexican Routes 2 and 15 backed up for miles while drivers waited as long as three hours to get through customs. Many U.S. tourists were unwilling to put up with the delays, and many Mexicans, outraged at being searched "to the skin," joined a boycott against nearby U.S. cities. Officials in hard-hit San Diego were worried that without grass, kids would turn to hard drugs. In towns on the Mexican side, where trade was off 40% to 75%, businessmen were near panic. The gate evaporated at Tijuana's Agua Caliente race track, and occupancy...
...strike of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), which Chavez heads, against the table grape growers of the west coast is in its forty-ninth month. The national boycott of table grapes organized by the UFWOC has reduced domestic purchases by 30 per cent, Chavez said...
...right to boycott classes, it added that "if a professor cancels his class, the time should be made up." Laslo Pasztur 73. president of YAF, said privately that he would attend classes. "I'm for an end to the war," he commented, "but with honor and victory...
...campuses, those tactics on Oct. 15 will vary widely. The Congress itself has been urged to participate by two dozen Democratic Senators and Representatives, who announced that they will boycott legislative business on Capitol Hill that day. They include such war critics as Senators George McGovern, Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie and William Fulbright. Their idea has spread so widely that there is some doubt whether the Senate will be able to collect a quorum on M-Day. The Republican Party's liberal Ripon Society is backing the moratorium. At the community level, Buffalo Mayor Frank A. Sedita has proclaimed...
...Cornell's new president, Dale R. Corson, picked chiefly for his popularity with students and faculty, left it up to individual professors whether to hold classes. The boycott proposal has already been endorsed by the departments of psychology, chemistry and Romance studies, and moratorium organizers lined up a leading war critic, Republican Senator Charles Goodell of New York, as the speaker at a peace rally...