Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are those who argue that Ganhi's motivation for the raid was political--that forceful action against the Sikhs would win her Hindu support in the upcoming election. Yet a direct raid was really the only option available to Gandhi given that secret tunnels underneath the temple complex would have made it impossible to successfully blockade the extremists...
...other difficulties mar Brady's work, such as his tendency to rely on too much direct quotation from Boswell's compendious papers, as opposed to paraphrasing or explicating it. To nitpick, one feels another shortcoming is the dearth of illustrations accompanying the text to enliven the famous names. Many prominently mentioned members of Boswell's circle, Goldsmith, Burke, Temple, and most egregiously Boswell's father, wife and children, are not included. Neither, of course, are paintings of London or Edinburgh...
...combat the well-organized incumbent, labor supplemented its usual campaign tools-phone banks, flyers, canvassing-with an array of high-tech methods. "They've moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road...
...fighters. The Soviets, they reported, last week had already delivered more than half a dozen Hind assault helicopters with night-flying capability and firepower equal to that of the most powerful American gunships. If so, it would mark the first time the Soviets have shipped weapons directly to Nicaragua instead of using Bulgarian and Cuban intermediaries. Such a move would be a direct challenge to clear U.S. warnings that the delivery of sophisticated aircraft would constitute an unacceptable destabilization of the regional balance of power...
...Sandinista are smart enough to know that no conceivable they might amass could possibly defeat a U.S. invasion. And the majority opinion is correct in saying that the Reagan Administration knows that direct invasion will not achieve Central American freedom and stability along the lines desired by the original leaders of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Such as invasion would actually play into the hands of the Sandinistas by galvanizing support. The Sandinistas are fully aware of the constraints-from Congress, public opinion, and other nations-placed on Reagan, and they can safely dismiss the possibility of a general landing...