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These warnings sounded like a threat to sabotage the ticket by encouraging Jackson supporters to stay home on Election Day. But the next day Jackson was taking the opposite tack, blandly insisting that "I am not suggesting a boycott of the election." In fact, he added later, he simply meant that he would keep his followers informed of his progress in winning platform concessions. Said Jackson: "If I'm negotiating for you, watch my signal...
...ballots cast in primaries, only 31% would vote for him in the presidential election, vs. 53% who favor Mondale. Even if Jackson should withhold an endorsement of Mondale, the poll indicated, a mere 4% of Jackson's Black supporters would cast their vote against the Democratic nominee or boycott the election altogether. -By William R. Doerner. Reported by Jack E. White with Jackson
...pastoral letter that strongly urged the government to open a direct dialogue with the contras and opposition leaders. The Sandinistas are now apparently trying to link the bishops to the contras in the hope of diffusing the impact of what the government fears will be a church-supported boycott of elections...
...mustachioed electrician who caught the world's attention during Poland's short-lived era of renewal went to morning Mass in Gdansk and then headed off to a favorite fishing hole. Walesa had told Poles that he would suspend his political activities unless they heeded the boycott. That vow prompted Jerzy Urban, the government's abrasive press spokesman, to say, "Go and ask him whether he will fulfill this pledge or if he will back out of it and make fools of you for the 100th time...
...references to the Communist boycott, Atwood added, "If I win a medal [in the Olympics], I should mail it to the East Germans, who really deserve it. I probably wouldn't do anything that extreme, but that's where my sentiments...