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Many white businessmen hope there will not be all that much to pay; they expect the projected lifting of the economic boycott against Rhodesia to help everyone. Indeed, stocks on the Salisbury exchange have begun edging upward. Houses that had been up for sale in affluent white areas are being either withdrawn from the market or marked up in price. One white who now pays only $225 a month for a five-bedroom house in the capital's suburbs of Highlands was startled to be told that his rent will double when his current lease expires...
...battle began a decade ago, when the N.A.A.C.P. led a boycott against white merchants, some of whom were public officials, in Port Gibson, Miss. The aim was to force such changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the elimination of such terms of address as boy, girl, shine and uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P...
After Carter attacked Ford for not taking initiatives against the Arab boycott of American firms that trade with Israel or that have Jewish ownership, Ford said the Commerce department will release tomorrow the names of firms that have complied with the terms of the boycott...
Ford said he had taken the first presidential action since 1952 against the boycott, but Carter said Ford has blocked any Congressional action against the boycott...
There was a small boycott of the fund by the Class of 1975, Clifton added, "because many felt that giving separately to the fund was incongruent with the four years they had spent at College...