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...Reagan Administration's aim in Madrid was to use the meeting as a forum to chastise Moscow and the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski for imposing martial law in Poland. The U.S. also seriously contemplated a boycott of the Madrid talks unless martial law was eased or lifted. European diplomats who believe strongly in East-West dialogue-notably West Germany's Genscher-balked at the plan. But Haig managed to persuade them to agree to a unified gesture of condemnation. The Soviet-initiated suspension of the conference thus played right into into American hands. Explained a Canadian delegate...
...most accounts, the executive who first presented the telex idea on the evening of October 27--Theodore Brophy, Chief executive officer of General Telephone and Electronics--acted in an effort to prove to the Saudis that they had acted wisely in dropping GTE from their boycott list. No such institutional pressures worked upon Radcliffe's president; "I can't even imagine how my signing could affect the institution," she says...
Johnson sketched himself a symbol, a blue eagle clutching a cogwheel and a sheaf of lightning bolts, to be displayed by all employers who complied with the new codes. Then he called for a public boycott of anyone who refused. He asked for union volunteers to act as monitors. And Boy Scouts too. He even used Army Air Corps bombers to ship NRA banners and placards around the country. Said Johnson: "When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits to come into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security...
...number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail (C.G.T.), at least twelve of 40 member unions defied instructions to boycott pro-Solidarity demonstrations...
Finally, almost any protest can be punished under the resolution's expansive language. The "right," asserted in the resolution, to "demonstrate...in orderly fashion" means little. For example, a class boycott three years ago clearly disrupted the "central" educational function of the University. The organizers, even the participants, could have been disciplined. Similarly, a "phone-in" of Derek Bok's office was also legal, non-violent, and a violation of the resolution on rights and responsibilities. Even last year's library sit-in was a violation. In fact, the resolution denies students the right to undertake any action the University...