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Organizers presented two versions of a petition to boycott final clubs to the crowd, mostly composed of female upperclass students...
Francie Walton '94, who organized Women Appealing for Change, said that providing two versions of the petition brought together a larger number of students who might support the boycott...
...said she would not support the field hockeyteam's boycott because "the problem with the finalclubs is elitism as well as sexism." She addedthat RUS has ceased activism against the clubssince last year because members felt it would bemore productive to focus energies on "positivethings...
...economy blossom. "I see a good chance of Israel becoming the Singapore of the Middle East, a place where multinational companies will set up their technological and marketing headquarters for the region," says Gillerman. So far, these companies have not come in large numbers because almost all Arab countries boycott products from Israel. Other experts doubt that is the only reason: Israel's relatively high-tech economy is more attuned to European than to Middle Eastern markets, they say, and labor in Israel is high priced. Amos Rubin, senior director of economic-policy issues at the Bank of Israel, points...
...sheer size of the gathering was testimony to the continuing American interest in South Africa, seven years after the U.S. Congress enacted its economic boycott of the country. Nearly 170 firms, including Pan Am, Uniroyal and IBM, sold or closed their South African operations between 1985 and 1990. Since the Bush Administration repealed the bulk of those sanctions in 1991, many have gradually filtered back. During the past year Lotus, Microsoft, Tambrands and 24 other U.S. firms have opened offices, established subsidiaries or placed representatives in South Africa. "We get calls every day from companies that are thinking about going...