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...LEFT the theater, a Reuben look-alike pressed a pamphlet into my hand. Urging a J.P. Stevens boycott, it outlined that company's many offenses. Like many people, I had always professed undying concern about unions and 'brown lung' and then promptly forgotten. The highest recommendation for Norma Rae is this--it won't let you forget...
...decide is to decide. Not to boycott Nestle products is to support Nestle. Not to rename the Engelhard Library is to endorse Engelhard's example of "public service." Not to pressure corporations to withdraw from South Africa is to support apartheid...
...government in 1966 to become a professor at the University of Cairo. An admirer of Western culture (his collection of classical records is reputed to be the finest in Cairo), Khalil also conceived the idea of one of the most effective weapons against the West: the Arab oil boycott of 1973 was his inspiration, which he sold first to the Saudis and then to the other Arab states...
...theory, one solution would be a consumer boycott of oil purchases from any OPEC member that failed to honor its contract commitments. But no serious moves have been made in that direction. Instead, at week's end, Ashland Oil Co. disclosed that it too had grabbed up a load of Iranian crude, and at a price that the company would only describe as "somewhat higher" than prevailing OPEC charges...
...Stevens, the nation's second largest textile manufacturer, has been the target of an AFL-CIO-sponsored boycott since 1976 because of its alleged labor law violations...