Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier of the Eastern Region, demanded that the elections be postponed until "the irregularities have been regularized" and U.P.G.A. candidates allowed to register. President Azikiwe, himself an Ibo from the East, backed the demand. But Sir Abubakar refused, and with that, the U.P.G.A. high command ordered its followers to boycott the election and its candidates to withdraw...
Throughout much of the east and west, the boycott was a success. A protest strike paralyzed bus transportation and municipal government in Lagos, the capital. Angry mobs destroyed many polling booths, and on election day, most eastern and western citizens obeyed the instructions relayed by U.P.G.A. sound trucks: "Don't vote, don't vote...
...market. Bankers hardly nibbled at-the first one, a $24.6 million water-supply-district issue bearing a Baa rating. The rating made the real differ ence, Wall Streeters insisted, and not a plea by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for investors to boycott the state. The next day two Mississippi school-improvement issues totaling $8,775,000 were snapped up by two New York syndicates. Moody's (Aa) and Standard & Poor's (A) had decided that the school bonds had enough gilt on their edges...
...Dirji Gomboeve?representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia?urged the conference to "condemn provocations against the borders of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos." Red China and its satellites, which brutally suppressed Buddhism but found plenty of tame monks to collaborate with the regimes, decided to boycott the meeting, charging that it was dominated by the West. Living evidence of Red suppression was the conference's guest of honor, the Dalai Lama, who has been in exile in India since Peking drove him from his Tibetan throne in 1959. With pointed indirection he only noted that, "although...
...leaders have vowed to boycott and picket classes today and tomorrow...