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Though the United Democratic Front, the country's largest antiapartheid group, has organized a boycott campaign this Christmas to protest Pretoria's state of emergency, the minersqit week were far more interested in travel than in politics. At the Booysens train station in southern Johannesburg, 1,000 workers, some still in hard hats, others stripped to the waist, waited for three hours before the third-class carriages pulled in. A few dipped bread into tins of stew, washing it down with drafts of Lion beer and Viceroy brandy. Most were sprawled alongside mountains of suitcases and possessions, including sewing machines...
...would pick you all up and that would be the end of it!" He did not say what else he wanted for Christmas. Many editorial cartoonists did. Some 100 of them, including eight Pulitzer prizewinners, are drawing antiwar newspaper cartoons urging parents to boycott playthings with violent themes. Says Bob Staake: "Our art asks America to put Gumby, not Rambo, under the Christmas tree. At a time when we are supposed to be celebrating peace, it seems insane to turn war into a Christmas present...
...oddly enough, Paris, where he had gone after a meeting with Shevardnadze in Vienna. Shultz was in France to discuss arms-control problems and other policy matters with French leaders, including Premier Jacques Chirac. The U.S. has been critical of France for not joining a British attempt to boycott Syria diplomatically as a terrorist nation and for its haste in negotiating a deal to return to Tehran Iranian funds that had been frozen in France. The night before their Friday meeting, Chirac, who was visiting Spain, made clear French resentment of what it regards as hypocritical American nagging. Said Chirac...
When the Harvard Foundation was created in 1981 to improve race relations at the University, student organizations boycotted it as an inadequate substitute for a Third World Center. Five years later, the boycott is hardly remembered by most students. In fact, when the Foundation last week announced its 25 fall term grants, which total $9240, all of the major minority groups on campus were among the recipients...
...struck down altogether when Wayne County Judge Marvin Stempien ruled that a random check of park users' identification violated constitutional guarantees against illegal search and seizure. Pending a possible appeal, Dearborn's parks will remain open to outsiders, and the N.A.A.C.P. has called off its ten-month-old boycott of local stores...