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...more than a week, nervous commuters grumbled that obnoxious strikers might disrupt their travel plans by spreading a secondary boycott to other airlines and railroads...
Union officials said from the start that the purpose of calling a secondary boycott was to attract the attention of Bush. The president continued to insist, despite the fact that most of Eastern's service had been halted, that the case was an isolated labor-management dispute...
Union leaders lashed out at Lorenzo as a "robber baron." Machinists called for a public boycott of Eastern's sister airline, Continental, and said they would oppose Eastern's reorganization plan and any sale of assets...
...Illinois state penitentiary. His mother left home when he was eight. At San Jose State young Edwards starred in basketball. But the trappings of racism he found in fraternities, student housing, the faculty and staff radicalized him. By 1967 he was a Black Panther urging fellow black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator in an armed ) revolt by blacks on campus. Now a sports sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley, and a consultant to the San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors...
...anything really changed in the 20 years since your call for an Olympic boycott...