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However, in Jerusalem, about 100 West Bank Palestinian leaders met Sunday and issued a statement asking their followers to boycott elections for an administrative council that might be held under the Camp David agreements...
...hardliners, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and P.L.O. Boss Yasser Arafat, even undertook a sudden trip to Jordan to try to persuade their longtime enemy, King Hussein, to boycott the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. It was an extraordinary idea?Hussein and Arafat had not met on Jordanian soil since 1970, the year that the P.L.O. virtually seized control of Amman until the King attacked and expelled them. Hussein quickly rejected the new ploy. "The King," said a Jordanian official, "will not respond to any appeals or pressures, and his moderate stance remains the same...
Officials announced that the Harvard College Fund Drive for 1978 raised a record $6.31 million, surpassing its goal by $60,000. Nonetheless, donations from the Class of '78 were way below expectations, owing to a boycott by many seniors who protested the University's investment policy on South Africa. The drop in donations "indicates that many students are committed enough to withhold what the University needs--which is money," a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee said...
...youth on a motorcycle, and the police report was buried until Minor received one of the dozen or so tips he gets each day. The Finch administration has been the target of Minor's reports of slush funds and campaign contributions from out-of-state engineers. Several advertisers boycott the Reporter, including Mississippi Power and Light; the paper accused its president and other company officials of entertaining two members of the state public service commission on a duck-hunting trip...
...Walker's gun began four years ago with his work on the passage of a bill reorganizing seven railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. Since then, he has helped persuade Congress to increase the investment tax credit from 7% to 10% and to turn down a proposed boycott of trade with the Arabs. His philosophy, as stated to a friend: "My priorities are easy-I take what...