Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diplomatic boycott made moral and political sense as long as Baltic independence seemed an impossible dream. Now the policy is applied too rigidly. An Estonian Deputy Prime Minister, Rein Otsason, and the republic's party ideologist, Mikk Titma, wanted to come to the U.S. recently to lay the foundation for what may be the next free government of their country. But the U.S. delayed the visitors' visas and gave them the official cold shoulder once they arrived...
...SPLC monitors. Before receiving all this, Lin knew very little about the civil rights movement. She wasn't even born when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, the arrest that led not only to a yearlong bus boycott but also to the "official" beginning of the nonviolent movement. The first thing she remembered, and not from the time it happened, was an image of Governor George Wallace looming in a doorway at the University of Alabama, unwilling to let any black student enter. The fact that she was neither...
...therefore mad as hell at them. And in order to repay them, I decided to spend my weekly column expounding upon the absolute necessity of New England Telephone's student services, rather than urging a general boycott of the company...
...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...