Word: indirectness
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...department also fired a former labor union official, Arthur Vignola, for an alleged indirect threat against an employee of the Kresge dining hall at the School of Public Health, Vignola"s case will go before labor arbitration today...
...hence the undemocratic nature of the "elections" should be obvious). According to New York Times reports, the Patriotic Front has twice as many guerillas fighting within the country now as it had a year ago. In this situation the Ian Smith regime is desperate to gain political, economic, and indirect military support from the West...
Business groups are also becoming increasingly more effective in indirect lobbying at the grassroots level. The Chamber of Commerce maintains a network of 1200 local Congressional Action Committees which can generate enormous letter-writing and telegram-sending campaigns. It was just such a business-inspired campaigns that helped defeat the Agency for Consumer Protection in the 95th Congress and led Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) to declare that he had "never seen such extensive lobbying" in his political career...
After Romero's political critics began charging him with at least indirect involvement, the Governor at first said that he had not known of the alleged plot before the ambush, but he later conceded to TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury that he had been told of several impending terrorist attacks, including one on the towers. He said the police had assured him that they would handle the matter, and he had told them "Fine." As for the police action, Romero declared: "I have no evidence of anything improper. All there has been so far is speculation, no evidence...
...considerable controversy, at least, in Laos. "Our mission was much inflated," says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies. You are not going to change the course of history by cloak and dagger." Ray Cline feels that the CIA is "better at subtle, indirect methods. It is late in the game when you have to shoot someone to get your way. The basic function of covert action is to tell people how to run a stable political system and how to deal with threats to that stability...