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...mutilates and murders teenagers in their sleep. But in toyland, Freddy has been given the ax. Last week Matchbox Toys acknowledged that it had halted production of its 17-in. talking Freddy doll. The company was bowing to pressure from the archconservative Rev. Donald Wildmon, who called for a boycott of stores selling...
Ralph David Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest adviser from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that sparked the civil rights movement to the Memphis motel where King was slain. He cradled the dying King in his arms and succeeded him as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Now Abernathy, 63, who was forced out as SCLC's president in 1977, has spilled the most intimate secrets to which his close association made him privy in his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down...
ALREADY, supermarkets and food distributors across the country have joined the boycott. So have other universities, such as Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts...
...boycott is intended to convince grape growers that their workers are as important as their produce--convince them, in other words, to negotiate with the union about pesticides...
...since the only lasting solutions--constitutional amendments or a more progressive Court--are not likely to happen in the near future, liberals will have to neutralize the Court's power. The next best alternative is to boycott the courts...