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...reason the boycott has been so widespread is that many people have been persuaded or coerced by the young activists to join the strike or suffer the consequences. To many of the township's residents, the choice is between paying the rent and risking retaliation by the militants or withholding the rent and facing eviction...
Pressure had been mounting since June, when the majority of Soweto's legal residents joined the boycott. In July, vowing to expel the "incorrigibles," the town council began to issue eviction notices, but twice extended the deadline. Preparing for trouble, the comrades made door-to-door calls to warn residents that if they paid rent, their houses would be burned. Last week, when the council evicted four families, trouble broke out almost immediately...
...indeed were not supposed to, they did represent a policy change of sorts. Thatcher balked at any tougher measures, like a ban on air links with South Africa; the London-Johannesburg route is a highly lucrative one for government-owned British Airways. When she turned down Hawke on a boycott of South African farm products, the Australian sputtered, "I'm all for unity, but if it's a question of unity or credibility, I'll go for credibility...
While Kadar was cannily constructing Hungary's halfway-house economy, he scrupulously followed the Soviet line in matters of foreign policy. Hungarian troops took part in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and its athletes joined the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. When Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Budapest in June for a Warsaw Pact summit, Kadar guided him through the streets, greeting curious crowds with hearty smiles...
...President argued against what he called the "emotional clamor for punitive sanctions." Such a "historic act of folly," he insisted, would wreck the economies of neighboring African nations, undermine the forces for reform in South Africa and endanger America's strategic interests. "Victims of an economic boycott of South Africa would be the very people we seek to help," he said. "We need not a Western withdrawal but deeper involvement by the Western business community, as agents of change and progress and growth...