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Mobil's boycott is the latest chapter in a long-running feud between the oil company and the paper. In a story published in April 1983 the Journal claimed that the son of William Tavoulareas, then president of Mobil, had sold ships to the company, thus raising questions about the ethics of such family deals. In strong letters to Journal editors, Herbert Schmertz, Mobil's vice president for public affairs, accused the paper of stealing company documents and conducting a "vendetta against Mobil...
...court's founders and firmest supporters, Washington would also lose much international credibility by withdrawing in the face of defeat. "You cannot be one of the major law-keeping forces in the world and then boycott the first major law court in the world," said Christopher Mitchell-Heggs, a Paris-based international lawyer. "When Iran ignored the jurisdiction, it successfully put itself out of bounds as an international partner. Nobody would treat it seriously, and all its major international agreements lapsed." At the same time, it is not unusual for a government to settle such disputes out of court...
...committee renewed its "full support" to the organizing committee of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, which are threatened by a renewed Soviet bloc boycott...
...President Juan--Antonio Samaranch told a news conference he was "very optimistic the world is at the beginning of a new period of detente" that would help to avoid a new boycott...
...union, they all want a settlement. But Yale's repeated rebuffs of the academic comnmunity's pleas for compromise have alienated even staunch conservatives. The school's callous attitude during this last round of negotiations has squelched the hopes of the students who led the three-day boycott of classes to pressure the university back to the table. In those talks, the union demand dropped from a $40 million cumulative raise over the next three years to $30 million, according to university estimates: Yale's counteroffer leapt from $18 million right up to $18 million...