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Before that announcement, Adams, Dunster, Lowell, and Mather Houses decided to boycott the CRR, while Cabot, Dudley, Eliot and Quincy Houses opted to defer decisions until the Faculty Council's review was completed...
...when she kicked off her "People's Victory" campaign at a rally in Manila's Rizal Park. While hundreds of thousands of supporters swirled below her, Aquino announced a program of nonviolent protest designed to pressure Marcos into calling it quits. At the center of the campaign is a boycott of businesses, news media and banks controlled by the government or Marcos intimates. The culmination is a 24-hour work stoppage planned for this week, one day after Marcos' scheduled Feb. 25 inauguration...
...boycott took hold, Manila was abuzz with speculation that some of the seven banks singled out by Aquino had lost large deposits and that the government-controlled Bulletin Today (circ. 250,000) had suffered a plunge in readership. But there was little evidence that the tactics had done more than make investors nervous. The day after the Manila rally, the price of shares in the San Miguel Corp., a blue-chip conglomerate controlled by Marcos Ally Eduardo Cojuango, plummeted 15%. Shunning San Miguel's products, which range from beer to ice cream, may prove difficult for most Filipinos...
...hostile. In 1981, when Marcos defeated a little-known challenger, he received 28 official letters of congratulation from leaders around the world. This time only the Soviet ambassador conveyed his best wishes. Several West European diplomats emerged from a meeting with Aquino last week and indicated that they might boycott Marcos' inauguration. And by week's end Belgium and Canada announced flatly that they would not attend. The Reagan Administration, for its part, had not yet decided whom it would send to the ceremony...
...protester explained his boycott of the speech by saying, "I felt that Smith was implying that colonialism was not bad for Africa...