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Although Mcerwa's movement is relatively small and ineffective, at times there is more to it than cliches and slogans. The young radical grabbed headlines in January when he led a campaign against pop star Paul Simon for violating AZAYO's cultural boycott; during the singer's tour in South Africa, Mcerwa was arrested for the seventh time in 10 years after a hand-grenade explosion damaged the Johannesburg offices of a music company providing Simon with technical assistance. The police released Mcerwa seven days later pending further inquiries...
...again he insists on the continued importance of military power. If the U.S. wants to retain economic and . political influence in the new Europe, he says, it had better keep some troops there as well. Punishing China for the 1989 massacres of prodemocracy demonstrators by enacting a total economic boycott might be "emotionally satisfying" to Americans, but the U.S. "cannot effect positive change by ruining China's economy." The thing to do is keep China's free-enterprise economic innovations alive until the "neo-Stalinists" now running the country die and are succeeded by leaders who realize that "economic reform...
...weeks later, corporate giant R. J. Reynolds took notice and asked Crowley Gottlieb to stop the boycott...
...petitions will not be the end of her fight. Crowley Gottlieb plans to send a letter to all the pharmacists and businesses in Cambridge asking them to boycott Camel cigarettes...
...limits on settlement construction. President Bush has not budged since. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir answered by pledging to keep building, declaring that "no power in the world can prevent us from carrying on." In response, the Palestinian delegation to the U.S.-sponsored peace talks threatened to boycott the negotiations if the guarantees were granted unconditionally...