The Chronicles of miss international
In 1976, immediately after a massacre of schoolchildren in Soweto, near Johannesburg, turned the world’s interest to South Africa’s atrocities, nine nations announced they would boycott the Miss Globe pageant for allowing South Africa to participate. A second boycott followed the next year, forcing the organizers to ban South Africa. Pro-Palestine activists started demanding she boycott the Dec. 12 Miss Universe pageant simply because it will be held in Israel. Miss USA, meanwhile, has been owned and operated by a…