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Your recent editorial supporting the CRR boycott impels me to write this letter...
...writer of the editorial states that the student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is a powerful tool for a reform of the unfair composition and procedures of the Committee. This is ridiculous. If the boycott is a powerful tool, why hasn't it had any effect in seven years of operation? The author's conclusion that a unified boycott is the "only weapon students have left" is obviously erroneous...
Second, the writer refers to the class of 1980 "retaining" the boycott. The class of '80 cannot retain its boycott because we have never been involved in it. Certainly, we have no legal or moral compulsion to continue that which was begun without us, seven years ago. Thus the implication that we are somehow "defecting" is also untrue...
...will forget the winter of '77? Scarcely had the consumers' coffee boycott got off the grounds, so to speak, when along came Mr. Carter asking us to turn our thermostats down...
...Chrome Boycott. At week's end, as Young headed back to Washington, the Carter Administration threw its full support behind a bill to repeal the Byrd Amendment. Under that act, sponsored by Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., the U.S. has been importing Rhodesian chrome, in violation of a U.N. trade boycott, since 1971. Though many nations-including the Soviet Union and four other East European countries, according to allegations contained in a recent U.N. Sanctions Committee report -have been breaking the boycott on chrome clandestinely, the Byrd Amendment's open defiance of the U.N. sanctions has caused great...