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Leaders of the boycott movement have threatened to expand it this year and to enlarge some storefront "academies"−similar to those that whites established in the South to avoid desegregation−in South Boston, East Boston and Hyde Park. The academies, designed to accommodate 800 students, will charge $575 tuition. Other white parents are trying to enroll their children in parochial and private schools, most of which are already full, or in suburbs and other school districts where they have relatives...
...Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports. Organized in cartels, these producer states could boycott industrialized countries or engage in disastrous price gouging...
...union protests go, the campaign led by AFL-CIO President George Meany and maritime union chiefs against the latest Soviet purchase of American grain is unusual, to say the least. Up in Washington, Meany & Co. last week continued to denounce the grain deal, and to insist that the "boycott" of Soviet ships would continue. But meanwhile down at the Gulf Coast grain ports, loading was going on as usual. The longshoremen have in fact been kept working by court injunctions ever since their job action was announced two weeks ago, and they seem unperturbed. Said Luther Wiggins Jr., a union...
While the phantom boycott has not slowed the loading of the initial 10 million tons of American grain that the Russians ordered in July, it has helped to keep the emotionally charged issue of Soviet sales and rising food prices high up in the public consciousness. AFL-CIO spokesmen claim that their mail is running 20 to 1 in favor of the unions' rebellion...
...years, the U.S. has maintained a trade boycott against Cuba as part of a policy of trying to isolate the Communist island country from the rest of the hemisphere. Last week, in the most significant change in that policy to date, the State Department announced a partial lifting of the boycott. Direct trade with Cuba is still banned. But U.S. firms with overseas subsidiaries will now be allowed to make unrestricted sales to Cuba from their foreign-owned plants; foreign merchant vessels will be allowed to refuel in U.S. ports even if they have previously called in Cuban ports...