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...some of the heads of radical Arab states, which refuse to grant Israel the right to exist, never wanted to attend the summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place...
...Graduate Student Council (GSC) this week voted to support the long-standing boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the body formed after the 1969 takeover of University Hall to handle non-academic disciplinary problems. In a four-point resolution, the GSC said it decided to support the boycott because of what it views as the lack of parity between students and faculty members on the CRR, the committee's willingness to accept heresy evidence, its refusal to allow students appearing before it to have lawyers present, and its refusal to hold open meetings. "In its present form...
...students should protest any move by the law faculty to coerce them into jettisoning attempts to include diversity in selecting members. And if faculty members should succeed in forcing students to scrap the use of race as a consideration, students should boycott competing for the review altogether...
...promotion of infant formula. One nation--the United States--went on record in favor of this insidious offspring of a "free market." Harvard students this week have an opportunity to help redress this national disgrace; several campus groups are sponsoring petitions in House dining halls that encourage a boycott of all products made by the Nestle corporation--a major infant formula producer--in University food purchases...
...boycott of Nestle products could be an important first step towards mobilizing public opinion against infant formula. All students should sign the petitions; and students should neither use Nestle products like iced tea now in the dining halls nor buy Nestle products on their own. Likewise, the Harvard administration should abandon the lame excuses it has offered before--that boycotts represent an unacceptable moral stand by a university--when students have urged other product boycotts in the past. Students have a good chance to send an important message to the multinationals and the American government to subservient to their wishes...