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...with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval conditions in Mexican jails. Relatives of the 577 Americans in Mexican prisons organized "Boycott Mexico" campaigns...
...economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans...But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and on a small scale (so far) we die at the whim of a policeman...
Please stop assuming that Anita Bryant's foes are "radical gay activists" and "homosexual militants." I am straight and nonmilitant. But I am one of many who are proud to join any march, boycott or movement against one who would deny an American his or her civil rights...
...nation's "No. 1 labor-law outlaw." If this most antiunion of all companies can be organized, the theory goes, so can any other firm in the sparsely unionized South or anywhere else in the U.S. Accordingly, unions have called for a nationwide boycott of Stevens' goods, and sought and won several court convictions of the company for unfair labor practices-all to no avail. Not one of Stevens' 85 plants, mostly in the Deep South, has a union contract;" workers at seven mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., have voted for representation by the Amalgamated Clothing...
...would be inappropriate and unwarranted, and we are confident that any court would view it in the same manner." Certainly Stevens has not yet been hurt in any financially measurable way by bad publicity about its opposition to unionism or by the A.C.T.W.U.'s efforts to organize a boycott. Indeed, many argue that the fines and legal costs of fighting the unions are small compared with the cost of higher wages and better fringe benefits, like pensions, which organized workers would demand. Last week the company reported that sales in the fiscal year ended Oct. 29 rose almost...