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- BUSINESS, Page 51Business NotesCITIESUnconventional Tactics
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- When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference failed to
- persuade the Dallas city council to stop opposing a plan for
- increased minority representation, the local chapter resorted
- to tougher methods: it mounted a boycott last week to deter
- tourists and conventions from coming to the city. The strategy,
- though hardly new, is gaining in popularity. Increasingly,
- national groups and associations have sought to punish and
- pressure cities by moving their conventions and meetings
- elsewhere.
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- The city of Phoenix has lost some 60 gatherings, worth $37
- million, following last November's rejection of a Martin Luther
- King Jr. holiday by Arizona voters. Miami is still suffering
- from a boycott by blacks incensed over the city's snubbing last
- summer of Nelson Mandela. Economic damage to date: $5.4
- million. When the San Francisco board of supervisors declared
- the city a sanctuary for Persian Gulf war resisters, it drew
- bitter complaints from hundreds of angry convention managers
- and tourists. The controversial tactic seems to be having some
- effect. Faced with the possible loss of the Super Bowl in 1993,
- the Arizona legislature last week agreed to put the King
- holiday back on the election ballot in 1992.
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