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BEIJING--Students yesterday paraded on campuses, made speeches on street corners and began organizing a nationwide boycott of classes to press their demands for democratic reform...
Protest leaders said students at Beijing universities planned to join a class boycott beginning today and to contact schools nationwide to persuade them to join...
They said the boycott was a peaceful, legal attempt to force communist authorities to meet with them and discuss demands for a free press, an end to official corruption and other reforms...
...produced a reasoned report with such compassion for homosexuals, whom he had once called antifamily. Phyllis Schlafly, who said the report sounded as if it had been edited by a gay-rights group, lashed out against Koop and led a campaign against him. Her efforts culminated in the boycott of a dinner in honor of Koop and persuaded two presidential candidates, Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Robert Dole, to pull out as sponsors...
...year old Ethiopian missed the 1988 Olympic marathon because his country joined North Korea's boycott of the Seoul Games. And though Mekonnen said he was happy he won yesterday, he said: "I don't consider it my Olympic race...