Word: boycotts
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...have been his anxiety over the annual pre- Lenten carnival that was to begin this week. For Haitians, the three-day Mardi Gras festival is a time of orgiastic release, when they can momentarily forget their cares. Ordinarily Baby Doc would have joined in the festivities, but a boycott of the carnival called by his opponents was gathering momentum. The President, sniggered residents of Port-au-Prince, would be the laughingstock of a carnival to which no one came. On the other hand, any crowds that did form would be a danger to his regime...
...interns would merely encourage the inherently flawed notion of constructive engagement. According to the African National Congress's representative to the United Nations, "those people who claim they are going to South Africa in order to change its educational system, wittingly or not, only succeed in sabotaging the cultural boycott and helping apartheid to break its international isolation...
Aquino has received two important boosts in her low-budget, grass-roots campaign. One came from the organized left, which decided to boycott the election. That decision by a variety of organizations that have proved to be susceptible to New People's Army influence made it easier for Aquino to defend herself against Marcos' charges that she is a cat's-paw for the Communist insurgents...
...which was revived last year after a 10-year dormancy to discipline 19 student activists involved in two spring anti-apartheid protests, has been the target of heated debate and student boycott almost since it was established...
...could be kicked out of their buying delerium. Malls, even if not used for political recruitment, could serve as centers of some form of organized political debate. These attempts were unfortunately quelled in the mid '70s. A string of law suits surfaced against groups like those who campaigned to boycott Nestles, when the political groups became too vocal...