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After the Mather action, other House committees debated the CRR boycott, and all decided to uphold...
...member Mather panel eventually voted not to nominate any of its members to the CRR, and so preserved the boycott...
They were somewhat successful, so in 1973 the union reorganized, this time to initiate an academic boycott to protest the graduate school's new financial aid policy...
...less right wing and eccentric. Once he called for sending unarmed U.S. troops "who could be armed if necessary" to southern Africa under U.N. auspices to prevent a bloodbath there. He expressed open disdain for homosexuals and expressed misgivings about a California law prohibiting business collusion with the Arab boycott as an unwarranted interference with free enterprise. Among the more intriguing questions of the next few years: what the tradition-minded Senate will do to Hayakawa, and vice versa...
...miles), the most difficult (172 corners), and by far the most dangerous circuit in all of racing (nine Grand Prix drivers have died there). Uneasiness over safety at the track had been growing each year among drivers. Before the race, they met to decide whether or not to boycott the event. Niki Lauda voted not to race. Said he: "I felt that to risk a human life just to please the organizers of the race is not right. But the vote went against me, and I decided that I would go along with the majority...