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...representatives to the CRR. The freshmen later changed their minds--as have several freshman classes before them--after consulting with upperclassmen. Adams House also rescinded its vote, but South House stuck with its decision, reasoning that attempts to reform the CRR from within would be more effective than a boycott...
...American studies has often pitted the radical ideals and perspectives of its students and professors against a Harvard administration unwilling to relax its grip on the University's newest academic department. Perhaps the most dramatic display of anger was a series of rallies leading up to a day-long boycott of classes in the spring of 1979. The boycott was organized by students who charged Dean Rosovsky with maneuvering to establish an interdisciplinary committee of faculty from related fields to replace the department...
...that Watson's influence at the White House during the Afghanistan incident may have been greater than reports at the time indicated. "He recommended most of the measures the president took after the intervention into Afghanistan," says the official, who asked not to be identified. These measures included the boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow, a grain embargo, and restrictions on exports of high technology...
...result of such practices, a world-wide boycott was organized in 1977 against the Swiss-based Nestlé company, which accounts for 50% of formula sales to the Third World. Three U.S. firms-Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products and Bristol-Myers-together share 20% of that market. Two years later, Nestlé and the U.S. firms agreed to voluntary guidelines that banned such marketing abuses in developing nations. Antiformula activists say those rules were widely violated, so they pressed the WHO, an agency of the United Nations, to draw up the code adopted last week. Though they are not binding...
Sands' death also managed to cast a shadow abroad. The state legislatures of New Jersey and Massachusetts passed resolutions deploring Sands' death. The 110,000-member International Longshoremen's Association, which mans the docks along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, announced a one-day boycott of ships flying the Union Jack (only three vessels were believed to be affected). Of more serious consequence was the high probability that Republican sympathizers in the U.S. were once again passing the hat for the I.R.A., renewing the flow of arms-buying money estimated as high as $3 million annually...