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...labor organizer, in a kick-off speech for a nation-wide tour to promote a boycott of Stevens products, reminded the audience of the National Labor Relations Board injunctions condemning Stevens' poor working conditions, low wages, and unfair labor practices...
Students were almost evenly split on the question of boycotting the Olympics--46 per cent were in favour of a boycott while 44 per cent were against...
...addition all three networks speculate that in his State of the Union address today Carter will call for a U.S. boycott of the Moscow summer Olympics and for initiation of draft registration...
Even if Carter decides to order a U.S. boycott, he lacks the authority to enforce it. According to Olympic rules, only a country's Olympic committee may withdraw its athletes, and the u.s.o.c. is strongly opposed to any boycott. Whether it would refuse a formal presidential request is hard...
...economic warfare is now diplomacy by other means. Since 1973 oil producers have openly used their petroleum weapon to further their Middle East political objectives. Last year Nigeria introduced natural resources trade-offs by threatening to cut oil exports to the U.S. if the Carter Administration lifted the American boycott on chrome imports from racially troubled Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Both the possibility of other OPEC-type raw material cartels and Soviet economic retaliation against the U.S. have begun to worry the experts. Warns Harry J. Gray, chairman of United Technologies: "The minerals situation is similar to oil. Without an intelligent national...