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This flurry of defensive activism was in large part Harvard's response to what Shattuck terms "a tremendous pincer movement," constituting the most severe threat to the financing of higher education in recent years...
...Pincer number one was the Administration's attempts to curtail financial aid to students and research funding to scientists, as part of an ongoing campaign to reduce federal expenditures on social programs. Pincer number two was a Reagan proposal to cut dramatically the standard tax deduction for charitable gifts, as part of an overall tax reform--a move reducing the incentive to give...
...reason for ASEAN's action was soon evident. Within 24 hours, more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops supported by tanks and artillery had launched the final phase of a powerful pincer assault near the Thai border with Kampuchea. Their aim: to brush aside an estimated 10,000 lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea...
Bradley was delighted at the prospect: "This is an opportunity that comes to a commander not more than once in a century," he gloated to a visitor from Washington. "We are about to destroy an entire hostile army." As the Germans plunged westward, Bradley began creating an enormous pincer to encircle them. Patton's tanks raced eastward toward Argentan while the British moved south from Caen toward
...hostages at Richmond Hill prison, on high ground east of the capital. From the Guam, 250 Marines boarded 13 amphibious vehicles, carrying five tanks, and stormed ashore at Grand Mai Bay north of the city. They began moving south, while the paratroopers headed north toward the capital in a pincer movement...