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Toting signs which read "Harvard won't tolerate intolerance" and "Howie Carr, you've gone too far," the protesters urged students to boycott the study group and criticized the IOP for inviting the controversial columnist to teach the group, which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday afternoons this fall...
...boycott may have been more of a plug for the study group than a drawback, as 43 people attended Carr's introductory meeting, anunusually large crowd for a not-for-credit studysession...
...attempt to settle the matter, the French last week held a referendum on independence in the islands. The result: 48,611 vs. 842 in favor of remaining a French territory. But Kanaks argued that the tally was not conclusive. As a result of a boycott organized by the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, less than 20% of all eligible Kanak voters cast ballots. Said Jean-Marie Tjibaou, president of the Kanak front: "The referendum in no way changes the situation...
Mandela is Hollywood's first major effort to present South Africa's racial troubles to an American mass audience. The movie is already under attack. Even before he saw it, the Rev. Jerry Falwell referred to it as "Communist propaganda" and threatened a Moral Majority boycott of HBO during September. Claiming that Mandela is "pro-terrorist," Citizens for Reagan, a lobbying group, has said it will call on its 100,000 members to cancel their HBO subscriptions. In response, HBO Chairman Michael Fuchs declared that viewers should make up their own minds about the movie...
...welcomed Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, despite accusations that the Austrian President had been involved in Nazi war crimes. The resulting controversy threatened to sour John Paul's nine-city trip to the U.S., which begins on Sept. 10. Jewish leaders in Los Angeles announced that they might boycott the Pope's scheduled interfaith celebrations. A more important Miami meeting between John Paul and American-Jewish leaders, intended to enhance relations, seemed doomed...