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Members of the House committee said last night they decided to put the decision to a referendum because they did not believe they should decide on their own to continue the boycott...
...internal FBI memo of March 28, 1968, suggested that the agency use "friendly media contacts" to put out the word that King was a "hypocrite" for coming to Memphis to lead a garbage strike and urge blacks to boycott white businesses while he himself was staying at the white-owned Holiday Inn. Two local news stories subsequently mentioned the fact. King then switched to the black-owned Lorraine Motel. It was there he was shot on April 4, though the committee in no way suggests that the FBI was setting him up. That memo about the Holiday Inn contained...
...kingdom is not of this world," Jesus said. To Jehovah's Witnesses, who now number more than 2 million worldwide, that is a command to boycott all political activity. Various nations have found this irksome, but few have matched the violence of Malawi's response. During a 1972 crackdown by President-for-life Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a Presbyterian elder, Malawi Witnesses were robbed, beaten, raped, even murdered. Thousands fled to neighboring Zambia, which shipped most of them back to Malawi. Eventually, about 34,000 found refuge in Portuguese Mozambique...
House committee members said last night they feel they do not know enough about the CRR and the reasons for the student boycott to vote to begin a selection process that could bring an end to the five-year boycott...
...committee will meet next Monday to hear a report on the CRR and the student boycott, and will then decide whether to name an 11-member panel of Winthrop students to nominate up to two of its members to serve...