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...inciting the ensuing demonstration. Dunbar was demoted by the faculty, but the students rallied behind him and agreed to boycott--breakfast. The Corporation and Overseers conceded that the butter was rotten, but they insisted the students apologize for their insubordination or resign. They apologized...
...blow fell hardest on the East Germans, who were still resentful over the Soviet-led boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Faces visibly dropped as news of the canceled visit passed down a line of pensioners waiting at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing in East Berlin. "Have you heard?" said one elderly woman. "The trip is off." Holding back tears, her companion replied, "I knew it." Reacting later, an outspoken young East German writer offered a more bitter assessment: "Honecker has bowed to Soviet pressure again." Explained a Western official in the East German capital: "There is almost nothing...
Like many other European companies, Nestlé is looking for acquisitions in the U.S. because that is where the fastest, surest economic growth is now taking place. Last January, Nestlé burnished its public image in the U.S. by settling a 6½-year-old consumer boycott prompted by the company's marketing of infant formula in developing countries...
...weakness on that score, the Jaruzelski government also has some grounds for optimism. The regime gained considerable confidence from the turnout at the June 17 regional and local elections, in which, according to official figures, some 75% of the voters went to the polls, despite calls for a boycott from Solidarity leaders. That electoral victory undoubtedly helped convince Jaruzelski, and his Soviet patrons, that the regime could at last afford to release the political prisoners...
Within South Africa, antiapartheid groups-principally the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.), a multiracial coalition of some 600 South African union, church, cultural, sports and community organizations-called for a boycott of the polls. On election day, 624,000 colored students at more than 70 schools and universities stayed home in protest. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of South Africa's 5.5 million Zulus, the country's largest black ethnic bloc, hinted ominously of possible black reprisals against those who voted. Said he: "We feel betrayed because so many of our colored and Indian brothers and sisters are rushing forward...