Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet people are not inclined to see a spy in every foreigner," officials insisted. Nonetheless, they warned, if foreign diplomats and newsmen continue to invite Punkovskys and Penkovskys to their parties, "real, honest Soviet people" might boycott them altogether. To show that its diatribes were not just cocktail talk, the government last week stripped Artillery Chief Marshal Sergei Varenstov of his rank for having befriended Penkovsky, disciplined some of "the scientist's other friends and boozing companions." "Of course," added Pravda, "we are against spy mania...
...conscience," goes a favorite Negro saying, "is through his pocketbook." This may hit the mark, because the most successful Negro civil rights stratagem so far has been neither sit-in nor lawsuit. Negro leaders, skirting restraint-of-trade laws, call the device "selective buying." It is really a consumer boycott, and it can be devastatingly effective...
...Name the Traitor." Northern and Southern techniques vary. Southern Negroes with broader goals boycott entire business districts as a community protest. In Birmingham, retailers have averaged a $750,000 weekly loss, some because Negro trade boycotted stores, some because whites did not venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs...
...degree of the United States' commitment, coupled with the strength of anti-Duvalier feeling throughout South America, assure a more truculent opposition in the future. If no more than a boycott of Haitian goods were initiated, the Duvalier government would probably fall, for Haiti's declining economy depends on the export of coffee and sugar. Without foreign trade, unemployment would probably lead to revolution if Duvalier refused to leave office of his own accord...
...India, Poland, and Canada, which was set up to police Laotian neutrality, tried to restore the peace, it lost one of its three heads. Communist Poland recalled its ICC representative to Warsaw in the wake of vigorous U.S. protests that the Pole's "obstructionist tactics" and deliberate boycott of ICC field observation work were sabotaging efforts to maintain a cease-fire between the Neutralists and the Pathet...