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...good for people in Ireland. Our president has referred to the country's grief as an internal British affair; he and every other politician in the country should be made to recognize the British presence in Ireland for the basic violation of human rights that it is. Americans can boycott British goods, following the lead of the American longshoreman, who refused for 24 hours to load or unload ships flying the Union Jack. They can make Ireland an issue in American politics, demanding that congressmen--especially Irish pols like our own Tip O'Neill--demand the quick departure...
...latest ploys, incredibly enough, has been to raise the specter of Communist ministers in a Mitterrand government. Mitterrand has been forced to insist that he would never accept them-and in so doing has given Marchais an excuse, should he choose, to ask his membership to boycott the second round rather than vote for Mitterrand...
Members of the SRC said they will ask for a "wide-ranging" examination, which would evaluate the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the object of a ten-year student boycott, as well as the Commission of Inquiry, the Administrative Board, and the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...
...Olympic boycott left a bad taste in my mouth. I decided to hang it up after the Nationals last summer. Unfortunately, the UCLA's women's team lost some key recruits and when the coach asked me to swim. I thought I owed it to the program," Tauna said...
...competitiveness that makes Gaines outspoken about last year's boycott of the Moscow Olympics. "All the disappointments in my career, my life, could not add up to that one disappointment. I'd rather have one Olympic gold medal than five world records 'cause you just can't take that medal away. I just can't say I beat their times at Moscow and won four gold medals--that's bull, anything could've happened," he sights...