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...risk of boycott or give up moving lettuce altogether. Obviously, they are at a competitive disadvantage. 'This is immoral," complains Harold Slawsby, president of a modest chain of stores in Massachusetts. "We're not going to allow the large chains who contract directly with the growers to obtain the bulk of the U.F.W.-picked lettuce, while leaving only scraps that can't come close to filling the demand for the independent chains...
Farber's journey was the result of a Harvard Corporation decision to obtain first-hand information on the situation in Angola in order to make a more knowledgeable decision on the Gulf stock issue...
Upon returning. Farber said that he was "extremely pleased" with the trip. He said it enabled him to obtain "factual information and sights that will prove extremely helpful in conveying to those in the Harvard community who are interested what the facts are about Gulf and Angola...
...publisher Richard Missner fired editor Harper Barnes; the staff formed the Phoenix Employees Union to protest that action and to obtain other demands, including the formation of a community-based executive board and threatened to strike...
...procedure itself is not new. Doctors have used a similar technique to obtain samples of uterine tissue for 50 years. Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist, pioneered it as a less painful abortion technique ten years ago. Militant Women's Liberationists have been using menstrual extraction in small "selfhelp" clinics for more than a year as a means of preventing "male control" over their bodies...