Word: boycotts
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...even before the balloting last week, the candidates of both Catholic parties had vowed to boycott the assembly's meetings. Without their participation, the newly formed body would not be able to meet Prior's key condition of "cross-community" involvement...
...Kenyatta is a man of contradictions. He is 38 years old and a second-year student at the Law School. He is a Baptist minister who changed his name to that of the most sacred prophet of the Islamic church. He is a civil rights activist calling for a boycott of a Law School course on civil rights; a champion of Black causes who indirectly caused the re-election of a notoriously anti-Black mayor of Philadelphia...
...individual voices deal the strongest emotional punch--particularly Bernstein, who varies her tone and character effortlessly from scrappy, Horatio-Alger-like preteen newsboy to gentle, pained, unfulfilled wife and mother, and Barry Mann, who as a migrant worker urging a grapes boycott evokes a universe of hardship and anger in Spanish melody...
...continued, as other Presidents had before me, to consider the Shah a strong ally. I appreciated his ability to maintain good relations with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and his willingness to provide Israel with oil in spite of the Arab boycott. At the time of his visit I was especially eager to secure his influence in support of Egyptian President
...concurred with me that if Begin would negotiate in good faith, the agreement should include the establishment of diplomatic relations and the end of the economic boycott against Israel. He said that all Israelis must leave Egyptian territory and that any agreement had to provide for the Palestinians, for the West Bank and for future agreements between Israel and her other neighbors. The details could be worked...