Word: disruptions
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...President Johnson in mid-1968 as Viet Nam commander, Abrams presided with considerable skill over the American withdrawal from the fighting. He de-emphasized the Westmoreland strategy of massive search-and-destroy missions, favoring more mobile "spoiler" patrols of four or five men sent out to ambush and disrupt the enemy. Abrams gave subordinate commanders unusually wide latitude. Always a strong believer in risking machines more than men, he smoothly replaced ground forces with planes as troop reductions proceeded...
Rockefeller's prospects were buffeted briefly by a bizarre report, mentioned by Columnist Jack Anderson last week, alleging that Rockefeller money had been used to finance a "standby" group of "toughs" to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Convention. The shenanigans were supposedly described in papers contained within seven mysterious boxes of Watergate "documents." This material, once supposedly held by Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt, was said to have been spirited away by a Nixon loyalist named Roy Sheppard following the Watergate break-in of June 1972. Sheppard later said that he burned the papers, but recently there have been...
...Possibly the Saudis are waiting for some indication from the new Ford Administration of just how much the U.S. values Arab cooperation. But most oil analysts suggest a different reason: however sincere the Saudis may be in their desire to cut oil prices, they are reluctant to disrupt the powerful cartel formed by the twelve members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. King Faisal's government apparently feels that it cannot move unless it gets the support of at least one or two other O.P.E.C. countries...
...pleaded with students at the Sanders Theater meeting no to disrupt the speeches by representatives of the South Vietnamese and other governments. Cox later headed the inquest which led to CRR trials for a number of students who took part in the chanting and clapping that disrupted the teach...
...students are free spirits." At Northeastern, he continues, "students can say anything on their mind," as happened in the episode of the female songsters. "I like that story," he says with a grin, "but I won't put up with nonsense. Classroom time is precious. Once they disrupt one class, they can do a lot." O'Toole says he regrets the "desire among faculty to court popularity. There's a tendency to be soft on students here. I'm the only one to enforce the smoking regulations and I won't let students eat in my class...