Word: boycotters
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...refusal of Weld Professor of Law Derrick Bell to teach at Harvard until the Law School tenures a Black woman. My friend suggested that Bell's protest would detract from the scholarly achievement of any Black woman tenured in the near future. This friend--who supported the April class boycott for increased faculty diversity--suggested that even liberalism had a limit...
...Washington, Congress could debate a boycott of its own this week, when the House is expected to vote on a measure to speed up the Salvadoran peace process. The bill would cut in half this year's $85 million of scheduled military aid to El Salvador if the Cristiani government appears to be stalling in talks to end the war with the country's leftist guerrillas...
Butts had a point. Since January, Brooklyn's Flatbush section had been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocers that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture...
...appealed to working-class whites by goading blacks. Low-key and conciliatory, Dinkins prefers quiet back-room negotiations to forceful public speeches. But even in such talks, Dinkins and his aides have blundered. When the mayor dispatched his most trusted assistant, Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, to mediate the Korean boycott, Lynch angered the demonstrators by walking into one of the stores without first talking with them. After that bumpy start, however, Dinkins' men managed to keep both sides talking, and an end to the boycott appeared to be in sight...
...program. The A.W.B. has launched a campaign of intimidation against Welkom's blacks and has been accused of nighttime beatings. In early May, when armed squads began strutting in the streets during the day, the civic association in Welkom's black township of Thabong declared a consumer boycott. Suddenly white-owned shops were deserted, and losses mounted to about...