Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the rushed preparation, Harvard will have to rely on its stalwart defense and very basic offense. "We know our defense will keep it close," Restic said. "The offense is as simple as you can possibly make it, but it'll be effective if (the quarterbacks) can give us enough of a runfi pass combination...
Mandelbaum seems overawed by the basic stuff of his topic: the awesome and ever-increasing destructiveness of nuclear weapons--with some justification. But consequently Mandelbaum has treated all the actors as larger and simpler than life. The bomb death; the U.S. good; Clauswitz...
...peaceful march ends Saturday's action, and an inconclusive meeting ends Saturday night. After five hours, you decide to meet at nine the next morning and start from scratch. The basic split is emerging here. Some people want to keep attacking, keep cutting fences. Others don't like Mace, don't like wearing gas masks, fear that real violence may break out. "What did you come here for--to occupy or not?" one man shouts, and people around the circle really wonder...
...electoral ploy to raise hopes for peace during the last stages of the presidential campaign. This misses the mark completely. Once Hanoi had gone public we had no choice except to state our case. I had two objectives. One was to reassure Hanoi that we would stand by the basic agreement, while leaving open the possibility of raising Saigon's suggested changes. The second was to convey to Saigon that we were determined to proceed on our course...
...town of Takeo and cut the road between it and Phnom-Penh. The North Vietnamese were systematically expanding their sanctuaries and merging them into a "liberated zone." If these steps were unopposed, the Communist sanctuaries would be organized into a single large base area. By April 21 the basic issue was whether Vietnamization was to be merely an alibi for an American collapse or a serious strategy designed to achieve an honorable peace...