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...waiver marked only the twelfth time that the U.S. has relaxed the Cuba trade boycott since it was imposed by the OAS in 1964. "The excellent relations between us and the Argentine government are very important to us," explained a State Department spokesman just before the decision was announced, "and we do not want to do anything that would affect those ties...
...which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union has threatened to boycott such Latin American imports as bananas, sugar and coffee if the tax is imposed...
Wylie, who submitted the motion, said yesterday it was his intention that the boycott resolution also apply to city schools, although he acknowledged that council votes are not binding on the Cambridge School Committee...
Neither City Manager James L. Sullivan nor City Purchasing Agent Richard J. McNamara were available for comment yesterday, but a survey of dietitians and chefs at Cambridge Hospital and Cambridge Infirmary revealed that food service employees have not been informed of the boycott...
...totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more growers will defect to the rival International Brotherhood of Teamsters when their contracts with the farm workers' union expire this spring, Chavez last week intensified the latest nationwide boycott of non-U.F.W.A. California table grapes that began last year. The boycott also extends to non-U.F.W.A. iceberg lettuce...