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...similar organization, the Dallas-based American Renewal Foundation, distributes window decals for store owners to proclaim their refusal to sell porn. The group is currently threatening to boycott Circle K convenience stores, whose chairman has thus far withstood pressure to remove offending magazines. Another chain that has resisted is Dairy Mart convenience stores, with 950 outlets in the East and Midwest. Following a boycott organized by an affiliate of the N.F.D. in April, Dairy Mart conducted a survey of its patrons in four states, asking whether it should stock magazines like Playboy. The result: 55% said...
However routine, the surprising landslide enraged many P.A.N. supporters. Stores across the state closed down for a day, and nearly 10,000 people gathered in the city of Chihuahua's main plaza while Francisco Barrio, P.A.N.'s candidate for governor, urged them to block roads and boycott progovernment newspapers...
...Minister Edward Seaga: "If Pretoria will not listen to arguments based on rights, it will listen to arguments based on rands." But no one expects measures against South African trade to be nearly as effective as the banking action. Some businessmen somewhere will always find ways to beat the boycott and make a profit...
...which is sponsored by the U.N., had asked the British National Theater to put on its stage production of George Orwell's book, a pointed antitotalitarian satire that is a no-no behind the Iron Curtain. Moscow, hearing of the booking, grunted nyet. Fearing a festival-wrecking boycott, Institute President Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, got Sir Peter Hall, the National Theater director, to agree to stage Farm independently, not as part of the festival. Now Hall is raising a squawk: Censorship! No, replies Soyinka: the booking was scratched only to ensure that the festival does not "cease to exist...
Other nations continued to seek protection from possible nuclear fallout. After arduous debate, the twelve member nations of the European Community agreed to ban all meat and farm products from East European countries affected by the fallout from Chernobyl. The boycott will remain in effect at least through May. The move infuriated exporters such as Yugoslavia and Poland, which rely on hard currency raised from agricultural sales to pay off foreign debts. Officials in Warsaw were especially angered by a U.S. plan to ship powdered milk for distribution in Poland through nongovernment agencies. Their bitter retort: an offer to send...