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After breaking away from Britain, defying the U.N., frustrating an international economic boycott and oppressing black Africans, Ian Smith is offered a $2 billion "safety net" if he gives up what never was his in the first place...
...Passive. Biagio Morelli, 39, a soft-spoken Parma city employee, went even further. He organized Italy's first real consumer boycott. Soon the cramped office of his all-volunteer Confederation of Consumers was filled with irate housewives eager to demonstrate or to sign petitions calling for an investigation. Says Morelli, who charges that the wholesalers made $40 million profit on the operation: "People always said the Italian consumer was too passive and uninformed to be organized. Yet look at the effect...
Following the boycott, a state law was passed prohibiting "conspiracies" to boycott businesses. Last August, the Hinds County Chancery Court awarded $1,250,699 in damages to the merchants...
...seriously than the present aspirants to the White House. Whether at the debates or on the stump, both Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford appear to be auditioning for Mount Rushmore. Their few attempts at humor have been elephantine or asinine, a condition that may make nearly half the electorate boycott the polling booths next month...
...hours a week. For a while, students had been joining in the lines; now, the newest Vise initiative calls for the stepped up use of library facilities in order to force an early settlement. Previously, Vise members had advised fellow students, with a remarkable degree of success, to boycott the libraries entirely, and library use fell, for a time, to one-third normal level. The workers say they are grateful for the student support the Vise members have marshalled...