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Over 2000 supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) rallied at Government Center Saturday and heard Richard Chavez, a UFW vice president, call for a more stringent boycott of Gallo wines and and supermarkets that retail non-UFW lettuce and grapes...
...Sunday or Tripoli on Wednesday. It is unlikely, though, that Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a blunt critic of the U.S., would permit a meeting in Tripoli that was likely to lead to an elimination of the oil cutoff. Algeria, Kuwait and Syria were also opposed to ending the boycott. Some of the other Arab states would probably agree to a compromise-perhaps lifting the embargo in stages keyed to Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab land...
...Service Committee, the African Liberation Support Group, and the other organizations which had set up the demonstration, the Sun carried goods exported from Rhodesia. The picketers had come out so early this bright morning to urge the dockworkers to refuse to unload the ship and to support an international boycott against goods from Rhodesia...
...Eddison, the cause of the United States boycott is very important. After the U.N. imposed sanctions and before Congress passed the Byrd Amendment, he says, Rhodesia suffered both economically and psychologically from the world blockade. Foreign reserves dwindled, and the white regime felt isolated, unrecognized by every nation in the world. The Byrd Amendment had two beneficial effects for the Smith Government: It bolstered the Rhodesian economy by providing millions of dollars in foreign reserves, and it demonstrated that the Nixon Administration was sympathetic to the white cause...
...lunch hours and skip rest-room breaks. The battle was joined in May 1972, when Farah dismissed six workers, allegedly for union-organizing activities. About 2,000 Farah workers walked off their jobs in sympathy; the Amalgamated came out in support of the strike and later started organizing the boycott...