Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famine has been compounded by President Sukarno's economic boycott of neighboring Malaysia, which is a major rice supplier. Shortages have boosted rice prices 100% in the past six months, and so much of the Indonesian economy is tied up in Sukarno's military harassment of Malaysia that almost no cash is available to buy rice on the world market. Sukarno's dilemma is that a retreat from the anti-Malaysia campaign would only focus his people's attention on their bleak plight and encourage Indonesia's Communist Party, which is presently excluded from...
...empty seat is your vote for better schools," cried the leaders of New York City's recent school boycott. Nonsense, reported President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College, in a speech last week before the American Association of School Administrators. Boycott promoters, Fischer declared, undermine "the child's respect for the very school which is his surest hope of attaining equal opportunity." Said he: "With friends like this, neither education nor the civil rights movement needs to look for enemies...
...Louise Day Hicks, who has repeatedly denied that the Boston schools are segregated said that the boycott had emotionally scarred the participating children, demoralized Boston teachers, and wasted taxpayers' money. She announced that she would ask the School Committee to fine the stay-out leaders $50 for each absentee...
Last Year's Boycott Surpassed...
Yesterday's boycott surpassed last June's demonstration both in scope and numbers. The June stay-out included only junior and senior high school students, while yesterday's welcomed elementary school children as well. Last year only 8260 children stayed out, and only about 3000 attended Freedom Schools. And yesterday about 1200 white suburban children were bused into Boston to integrate the predominantly Negro Freedom Schools...