Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Party in his inside coat pocket. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara will soon be leaving him, and a debilitating exodus of top officials could follow. The far-out National Conference for New Politics has threatened to assemble 1,000,000 pickets outside Chicago's International Amphitheater in August to disrupt the Democratic Convention though there is some question whether 1,000,000 Americans even know what the N.C.N.P. is, let alone subscribe to its anti-everything policies...
Coercive Noninterference. The Israelis have tried not to disrupt Arab life unnecessarily, but there is no mistaking the fact that they are there as conquerors, not as friends. Arab farmers on the West Bank of the Jordan have been forbidden to sell their crops in Israeli markets for fear that they might undercut Israel's farm prices, which are on average 25% higher. Instead, they have been quietly permitted to export their produce to Jordan; a temporary bridge has been built next to the war-wrecked Allenby Bridge to allow Arab trucks to cross over to collect such produce...
...that U.S. forces are being lured to the frontiers and thus give an undue advantage to the Communists, who enjoy the sanctuary of national borders, Westmoreland is convinced that it is a worthwhile handicap. When the enemy forces do succeed in entering South Viet Nam, he points out, they disrupt the local population, strengthen guerrilla activities, and become harder than ever to root out. It is far better, in his view, to fight the main-force units in the comparative emptiness of the frontier areas, where civilians are not endangered and the full might of U.S. firepower can be employed...
...court was not advocating that the doors of defense industries be thrown open to subversives. "Nothing we hold today," he said, "should be read to deny Congress the power under narrowly drawn legislation to keep from sensitive positions in defense facilities those who would use their positions to disrupt the nation's production facilities." What the court objected to, he added, was the wording of the McCarran act, which is so vague and broad that it "quite literally establishes guilt by association alone." The Congress undoubtedly will take the hint and pass substitute legislation that will guard against subversives...
...until 1970-though it could be a shaky peace at first. Reason: local issues are still unresolved by all but 15 of G.M.'s 134 bargaining units. Probably the most restless of all U.A.W. members, G.M. workers are thus in a position to stage local walkouts that could disrupt production or even close down the company altogether. Reuther considers that unlikely. The new national contract, the U.A.W. boss predicted last week, "should hasten a prompt disposition of all remaining local issues...