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...prime time, when 18 million youngsters are in the potential audience, and is lobbying to have it scheduled at a later evening hour. A militant "no Soap" coalition formed by the Southern Baptists and nine other religious and civic organizations has been pressuring local stations and sponsors to boycott the program. As of last week, 17 of ABC's outlets did not run Soap. In addition, 47 stations in the South and Midwest ran the show an hour later than the network...
...occasion of the exchange is the opening of school in Chicago and an attempt to bus about 900 students from overcrowded black schools to under-crowded white ones. An estimated 6,000 local residents plan to boycott the first day of school this week as black transfer students are bused into a dozen schools in the section. When rumors spread that police might develop "blue flu" that day-calling in sick-so that they would not have to protect black children, Jackson hinted that black men might have to ride the buses carrying the transfers...
...everyone who examines what happened will agree on one thing: a factor that no one in Chile foresaw became a keystone in the opposition's effort to undermine the U.P. No one predicted that American companies would place a silent boycott of Chilean copper after the mines were nationalized, or that American banks would refuse to lend the U.P. money. This quiet ostracism crippled Chile's economy, ending its sources of foreign exchange so that it could not buy the imported goods upon which it had relied. Shortages of luxury and some basic goods--created both by the foreign exchange...
...independence of her defense and the independence of her energy supply." So said President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing while visiting Pierrelatte, the French Los Alamos, just before last week's battle. France has no oil and very little coal, and the 1973 Arab oil boycott dramatically demonstrated French reliance on foreign energy. Since 1974, as a result, the government has organized an ambitious atomic-energy program to provide at least 40 conventional nuclear-power plants and a 1,200-megawatt fast-neutron plant that will breed plutonium fuel from uranium wastes, reducing any necessity for importing...
...University's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) offered the Harvard Corporation an unprecedented number of anti-management recommendations on shareholding issues this year, ranging from investment in South Africa to the Arab boycott. But in several key instances, the Corporation refused to heed the ACSR's advice and vote against the management of companies like Mobil, Gulf Oil, General Electric and Manufacturers Hanover...