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...sense, then, Larry White, who is not a doctor, is not calling on us to quit smoking for health reasons. He is calling for a boycott of the tobacco industry on moral grounds. Charging the officials of such companies as R J Reynolds and Phillip Morris as being the vendors of fatality, White paints an incredibly grim picture of an industry that thrives on fraud, deception and a complete lack of social responsibility...
When a French pharmaceutical firm announced last week that it was suspending distribution of an abortion pill because of worldwide boycott threats by right-to-life forces, the action touched off an international furor. Prochoice advocates promptly labeled the ban on the pill, called RU 486, a blow to women's rights. More than 1,000 physicians attending a meeting in Rio de Janeiro signed petitions urging that the company, Roussel Uclaf, reinstate the pill. The outcry apparently worked. By week's end, under an unprecedented order from French Minister of Health Claude Evin, the drug company, which is partly...
...that State President P.W. Botha did not thoroughly prepare for last week's segregated local elections. Determined to boost the number of black voters in order to prove that they preferred officially sponsored "reform" to violent revolution, the government banned 18 antiapartheid organizations in February for organizing a boycott of the racially divided balloting. In June the government declared it a crime to advocate a boycott, but many defiant black clergymen and academics urged one anyway...
...black townships, however, the government's repression-and-persuasion campaign to bring out a symbolic vote of support for segregated politics was defeated by an overwhelming boycott. Although only 26.3% of registered black voters had gone to the polls, Chris Heunis, the minister in charge of planning a new constitution, claimed that "the government's objectives were undoubtedly met." If so, the government had set decidedly modest objectives. Since only 1.5 million of the more than 20 million blacks living outside the four "independent homelands" are registered, the turnout translates into less than 2.0% of South Africa's blacks...
...said the issue is not "black and white,"noting that the state of California opposes theUFW grape boycott...