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There is one interesting point about the CRR rulings which should not be lost on the rank and file members of the South African Solidarity Council.(sic) Leaders of SASC, such as Evan Grossman and Damon Silvers, broke the declared boycott of the CRR, testified before the committee and got off scot free for their actions at Lowell House. At the same time regular SASC members who honored the boycott were given suspended requirements to withdraw...
...hinted that if 75% of the country's 26 million eligible voters turned out, he might offer amnesty to 280 political prisoners, although he did not specify when that might be. But Lech Walesa, leader of the banned Solidarity labor union, and other opposition figures called for a boycott of the elections, which they claimed would not even begin to reflect public opinion...
...Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence earlier this week. The letter came in response to the recent disclosure that Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran had accepted a $45,700 CIA grant to hold a conference at the center on Islamic fundamentalism. Despite a boycott by about half of the scheduled participants, the conference took place last week. It was also revealed last week that Safran had accepted a more than $100,000 CIA grant three years ago to write a book on Saudi Arabia which was recently published by Harvard University Press...
...Coors boycott was begun in 1977 after the Adolph Coors Brewery Company refused to bargain with its workers over issues such as forced lie detector tests, compulsory physical examinations and search and seizure of employees' private property by Coors's private police force. Coors has been cited by the National Labor Relations Board for a number of instances of illegal harrassment of employees and continues to harrass and dismiss employees who support unionization. The company has broken 19 unions in the last 20 years. In addition Coors has been implicated in hazardous waste dumping and in unfair employment practices...
Coors's sales have declined every year since the boycott began in 1977. Before the boycott, Coors had only one brand of beer. Now it has five--Coors, Coors Light, Herman Joseph 1868, Golden Lager, and Killian's Irish Red. In 1977 Coors sold 14 million barrels of beer in 11 states. In 1984 Coors sold only 13.2 million barrels in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Meanwhile the company's advertising budget has increased by a factor of almost 20. Coors is vulnerable. By joining the boycott now students and others can help keep the pressure...