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...government is itself made of our words. So if you get in there with a jiu-jitsu in the language, you have the best chance of altering people's awareness or mind consciousness. It's sort of a psychedelic situation...
EVENTUALLY, Sharp says, passive resistance to violence will produce a "political jiu--jitsu effect." The force of the oppressor, turned back upon him, will prove his undoing, as third parties, revolted initially by the physical brutality of his campaign, gradually swing their support behind the oppressed: David Carradine meets the corporate state. The most mercenary aims may inspire a campaign of nonviolence. Invariably, however, others will respond from the heart and not the mind, just as many did after Kent State or Selma. In the end, the opponent may be converted to your point of view, decide that...
...jiu jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
Lamar has also begun instruction in basic Jiu Jitsu tactics, stressing punches outside the regular rules of boxing which can be used to knock out an opponent with one blow...
Students enrolled in Naval Science are now required to report four days a week to a newly-instituted Naval physical training program, including jiu jitsu, boxing, wrestling, road work, swimming, and calisthenics, according to an official order recently issued by Captain George N. Barker...