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Outraged by FAIR's campaign, some community officials have called for a boycott of the radio stations. In the face of such protest, the stations withdrew the ads. Unfazed, FAIR is looking for other outlets...
...President Alan Garcia Perez of Peru, who has called the Panama invasion a "criminal act," reiterated his threat to boycott the Andean drug summit set for Feb. 15 in Cartagena, Colombia, unless U.S. troops are withdrawn from Panama. Others scheduled to attend are Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco Vargas and Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora...
...effective, student pressure should take new, more exciting forms. A one-day boycott of classes taught by white men would raise awareness. So would encouraging students to sit in on classes taught by minorities and women for a day. These actions would ensure that the issues of race and gender are firmly set in the minds of the individuals who do the actual hiring...
...Earlier in the year, the editor of the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) apologized in print for a story alleging that drunken Liverpool soccer fans had "viciously attacked" rescue workers after 95 fans were crushed to death at a crowded soccer stadium in Sheffield. The wildly exaggerated story spurred a boycott of the paper in Liverpool. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was already reeling from a $1.8 million out-of-court settlement with rock star Elton John after falsely accusing him of using the services of a male prostitute...
Both victims, who were moderate members of the Basque separatist group Herri Batasuna, had hoped that ending their party's ten-year boycott of the parliament would spur negotiations with Madrid to redress Basque grievances. As news of the murders spread, thousands of Basques went into the streets of Bilbao, San Sebastian and other cities, smashing windows and burning buses and cars...