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Disgruntled members of the International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE)—a projectionist union with 26 local members—are asking customers to boycott five local Loews theaters, which they said has unfairly locked union members out of their jobs since June...
First-years, for example, first broke the seven-year boycott on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities in 1977, which was established as a student-faculty disciplinary body after the 1969 takeover of University Hall...
...that all the shooters were women, members of the Cava and Graziano families that have spent 30 years battling for control of local extortion and drug trafficking rackets. ALGERIA Tainted Victory The campaign to elect Algeria's new lower house of parliament was marred at one extreme by a boycott and at the other by lethal violence. The National Liberation Front won an outright majority with 199 of 389 seats after four opposition parties took no part in the vote. On the eve of the election, militant youths rioted in Tizi Ouzou, the main town of the Berber Kabylie region...
...Festival are usually about which film deserved to win or whether the blindingly bright days in this Riviera Eden are just a smidge too cool. This time the world impinged on the art. The ruckus began just before the festival, when the American Jewish Congress called for a near-boycott on grounds of French anti-Semitism. That charge was answered on opening day when Woody Allen, France's favorite U.S. auteur, showed up to say he loved the French and commended them for voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever...
...tell you to have that baby?" he screams. A few pages later he invites an attractive New York acolyte up to his hotel room. But such salacious details take a backseat to the more important business of the civil rights struggle. Volume one peaks with the Montgomery bus boycott and ends as King gets stabbed during a lunch-counter protest...