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...worked first for Civil Rights Lawyer Donald Hollowell, who successfully sued to open the University of Georgia to black students. In 1962, as state field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., Jordan led a boycott that forced stores in Atlanta to hire blacks. Two years later he became director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Traveling almost constantly, from big city ghetto to impoverished hamlet, he urged blacks to set aside their fears of white retaliation and register to vote. By 1968 the South had nearly 2 million new black voters, the number of black elected officials...
...bloody clash was the latest and most violent to arise from six weeks of school boycotts and demonstrations protesting the blatant racial discrimination of South Africa's educational system. The volatile conflict was hauntingly reminiscent of the black school protests that had exploded in Soweto four years ago-except that this time the movement was led by coloreds. Responding to the boycott, the authorities last week arrested more than 248 people-including black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu and 52 other religious leaders who had joined him in a peaceful protest march in Johannesburg...
Whatever the outcome of various 1980 Olympic events, one contest is likely to be remembered for a long time: the tug-of-war over the American-made Olympic boycott. As the May 24 deadline for accepting invitations to Moscow passed, the U.S. and the International Olympic Committee were circulating their own, widely varying lists of who would attend and who would not. Meanwhile, the I.O.C. extended the deadline indefinitely and said that previous respondents could change their minds...
...accurate count of who will attend may thus not be available for weeks. The I.O.C. released figures last week indicating that 85 nations will send teams to Moscow, 26 will not, and 31 are undecided. Those numbers were dismissed as "clearly wrong" by White House Counsel and Boycott Coordinator Lloyd Cutler. The White House scorecard, which tallies only non-Soviet bloc countries, named 60 no-shows, 80 attendees, and five countries whose intentions are unknown. Said Cutler: "There is no way the Soviets can portray either that the whole world is coming to Moscow and supports the Soviet position...
...decision of the cash-strapped Costa Rican Olympic Committee. Thailand, on the other hand, was offered only a 50% discount on Aeroflot in exchange for altering its plan to stay home. No thanks, said the Thais, who, along with other non-Communist Southeast Asian nations, are supporting the boycott. Jordan, which is sending a team to Moscow, was reportedly promised a visit by the Bolshoi Ballet. In South America and Lathi America, the Soviets have let it be known that free room, board arid round-trip Aeroflot charters are available for the asking. That offer was recently extended to African...