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Granted, the joint U.S.-international presence in the Gulf will not, by itself, quell Iranian revolutionary ambitions or safeguard the region's oil reserves. Other steps are desirable as well, such as an international arms embargo and a boycott of Iranian oil. The only problem is that, so far, such diplomatic efforts have stalled, as China and the Soviet Union have refused to join an arms embargo...
...Through his Jerusalem-based Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, he has been advocating a campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of territories captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. An admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Awad urges, among other things, a Palestinian boycott of Israeli products and Israeli taxes, and destruction of Israeli fences and power lines built across Arab land...
...state-run news agency PAP said more than nine million people attended official May Day ceremonies throughout the country and "attempts to boycott the May Day demonstrations ended up yet again with a complete fiasco...
...same. They've tried terrorist acts against us. They've tried military wars. They've tried an economic boycott. Everything has failed. This is a new form of warfare. And it will fail again because, if they want peace, they have first of all to quell these disturbances, because under this pressure, this violence, you cannot negotiate with anybody...
...combative Mecham drew fire for rescinding a Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, a move that prompted a boycott of Arizona by organizations looking to hold conventions in Arizona, and defended the use of the word "pickaninny" for Black children. He also came under attack for appointments deemed unqualified, including a tax official who didn't file his taxes...