Word: boycotts
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...growing program to convert coal to oil, South Africa will meet 60% of its needs for oil and gasoline. Nor are international economic sanctions likely to give pause to the rulers in Pretoria. One ironic reason: although neighboring black nations would want to go along with a boycott, they could not for long because they depend so heavily on South African trade...
...Foes boycott an election called by Marcos to solidify his reign
...charade. Marcos' wife Imelda, 51, who is Human Settlements Minister and second in power only to her husband, has made a few campaign appearances, but the President, 63, has not ventured out for two weeks. The significant political opposition, meanwhile, was sticking to its unanimous decision to boycott the election, which it charged would be so stacked in Marcos' favor as to make the entire process a sham...
...election boycott was a public rebuke for Marcos, who had specifically scheduled the elections to give his 16-year rule a patina of legitimacy. He particularly wanted to show the world-and the U.S.-that he had at least partially restored democracy before he goes to the North-South economic summit in Mexico City this October. Marcos charged that the boycotters were collaborating with Muslim separatists and other outlawed groups, planning a wave of violence...
...Philippines.* Although the law has rarely been enforced in the past, the government is prosecuting some 50 individuals of the millions who failed to vote in the April plebiscite that confirmed Marcos' strongman powers. What finally persuaded 45 groups throughout the country to organize a unified boycott against Marcos was his refusal to revamp the Commission on Elections. By its power to accredit candidates and rule on cases of voter fraud, the commission can virtually determine the outcome of an election. All eight of its members are Marcos appointees...