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Students organized the boycott of classes last week to express their desire for a settlement of the six-week old strike by workers including Yale's clerical, technical and food services employees...
...First Amendment's armor was being put on by each side, the case was also marked by ironies that cut both ways: the B.S.O. invoking ignorance to protect artistic expression and Redgrave crying blacklist, even though she urges that British artists boycott Israel by not appearing there. For the jury and the judges who will probably review the case, a central conundrum is: If Redgrave has the right to engage in radical activism to dramatize her political beliefs, does her employer have a right to sever relations with her in order to protect itself from the consequences of that...
...activists also fear that information about the test results will fall into the wrong hands. Some are recommending a boycott of the test unless confidentiality can be legally guaranteed. "Besides being clinically useless, this test is identifying," says Dr. Stephen Caiazza, president of New York Physicians for Human Rights. "It tells your employer, your insurance company or landlord that you are gay or a drug abuser...
Other intangible but no less important indices of national progress reflect well on this Administration. Crime rates are down across the country. SAT scores among high school students have risen. The Los Angeles Olympics-despite a Soviet bloc boycott provoked by the Carter-Mondale Administration became an attend of international joy and celebration. Crackdowns on organized crime and illicit drug tratficking have succeeded at an unprecedented level...
...Fred Barnes writes a column for the conservative monthly American Spectator. A fourth seat was offered to two New York Times reporters, Gerald Boyd and Hedrick Smith, who refused because they disapproved of the extensive vetoes. The Times's Washington editor, William Kovach, announced that the newspaper would boycott further debates this year: "We cannot encourage a process that has a political saliva test administered by candidates. We all know where that leads-to asking the White House who we can assign to cover it." CBS News President Edward Joyce also pulled his reporters out of contention for subsequent...