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...only been in here a couple of times all year--I've been honoring the strike," says Ellen Cunningham, a Brown sophomore. Cunningham and, by current estimates, up to two-thirds of her fellow Brown students, have been observing a boycott of the university's libraries, initiated by the 60-member student strike support group, Students in a Vise, at the beginning of this semester...
...Commerce Department, since October 1975, has required U.S. companies to state how they have responded to the boycott; according to the most recent report, 894 firms said they had contacts with the Arabs as of March 31, and most reported they would comply with the boycott. To avoid antagonizing the Arabs or angering the U.S. businessmen involved, the Administration has been notably reluctant to combat the boycott. Ford boasted in the debate that the tax reform bill he signed recently includes tax penalties for firms that observe the boycott, but he did not mention that the Administration had tried...
...Rhodesian chrome, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Even after he publicized his opposition to the Amendment last summer, the Ford Administration did very little to actually get it repealed. Nor has Kissinger done anything to press for prosecution of U. S. businesses like Mobil Oil that have broken the boycott illegally...
...real story in this scenario is the subsequent fan reaction--an almost total boycott that seemed almost the result of some joint action. The stadium deteriorated from a bowl of crackling rice crispies to a scattering of sceptical, soggy corn flakes...
Thus armed, the merchants went to court in 1969 to seek an injunction against and damages for the N.A.A.C.P.'S acts. County Chancery Judge George Haynes found last August that the N.A.A.C.P., another local group that backed the boycott and 132 individuals had "unlawfully conspired to and did destroy and damage" a dozen white businesses. He also ruled that the action was backed by illegal force and threats and was a prohibited secondary boycott since private merchants did not have the power to grant public demands. The damages and attorneys' fees: $1,250,699. The N.A.A.C.P. immediately began...