Word: harassments
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...missiles before they could launch their aircraft. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. Chief of Naval Operations, disclosed last week that he has assigned patrol gunships on a trial basis to trail the ships that trail his ships. The Asheville-class craft being tested have only 3-in. guns, which can scarcely harass the Soviet ships, and they ride so poorly that the U.S. crewmen have to strap themselves to their stations with safety belts. Still, the Navy hopes eventually to equip them with surface missiles that could pose a serious threat to the Soviet trailers...
...seems probable that no conspiracy existed. If the government knew this, then it can hardly argue that its motivation in seeking the indictments was is desire to see crime punished. Other possible motives exist: the government's desire to punish, or harass, or discredit those politically opposed to it. That it acted out of such motives does not seem implausible...
...General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams, 56, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam. A veteran tank commander with a jut-jawed, no-nonsense air, Abrams is pursuing a strategy of withdrawal that would be familiar to any student of cavalry operations: give way gradually but strike continually at the enemy, harass his troops, destroy his supplies and keep him off balance. Moreover, Abrams is trying to replace U.S. ground forces with U.S. planes and South Vietnamese soldiers. He means to use these like a cavalry troop, anywhere that the Communist forces are vulnerable...
...Soviet Union. The culprits were a tiny group of fanatics called the Jewish Defense League. Fomenting international tension is an avowed part of the league's strategy to underscore the plight of Soviet Jews (see THE WORLD). Hence the group pursued a campaign to "follow, question and harass" Soviet diplomats and to make their lives in the U.S. "miserable." Vowed one member of the radical-right religious group: "As long as the Jews can't walk securely in the Soviet Union, the Russians are not going to walk securely here...
...trying to build for the trial," Veach said in a telephone interview Friday. "The basic point about this case is that none of us are doing any political work at Harvard any more, so Harvard isn't too concerned with us. They just wanted to do a little to harass us, but it's not the most important thing to them...