Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrown up by the Seafarers International Union (TIME, May 9). The union complained that Nasser's discrimination against ships touching at Israeli ports was, in effect, unfair to U.S. labor. No one questioned the legitimacy of the seamen's grievances, but Nasser angrily retaliated by declaring a counter-boycott of all U.S. shipping. The trouble spread quickly to other Moslem nations, including such carefully cultivated friends of the U.S. as Tunisia and Libya. The enraged Arab nations cut off radio communication with American ships, threatened to extend their boycotts to commercial air traffic...
...Arthur Goldberg, discussed the situation for two days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called off. Truce, if not outright peace, returned to the troubled waterfronts of the world...
...Market. If Britain joined the Common Market, the argument ran, it would have to abandon the "imperial preference" system, which allows Commonwealth nations to export many agricultural products to Britain duty-free, gives them a substantial tariff advantage even on the manufactured goods they ship to Britain. As a counter, Britain organized the European Free Trade Area-the so-called Outer Seven...
...Norfolk, a police court judge fined two Negro college students $15 apiece for distributing handbills protesting against lunch-counter segregation...
...both sides of Mason-Dixon. the sit-in campaign was gathering support from whites. In Beaumont. Texas, police arrested a white Baptist minister for leading 22 Negro college students in a lunch-counter demonstration. A dozen white students from the University of Minnesota arrived in Nashville to help the sit-in movement. At the request of Negro students, top labor chieftains, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, signed cards pledging themselves to boycott store chains that refuse to serve Negroes at lunch counters in the South.* Students from Harvard, M.I.T. and half...