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With clandestine broadcasting equipment supplied by the CIA and the AFL-CIO, Solidarity regularly broke into the government's radio programming, often with the message "Solidarity lives!" or "Resist!" Armed with a transmitter supplied by the CIA through church channels, Solidarity interrupted television programming with both audio and visual messages, including calls for strikes and demonstrations. "There was a great moment at the half time of the national soccer championship," says a Vatican official. "Just as the whistle sounded for the half, a SOLIDARITY LIVES! banner went up on the screen and a tape came on calling for resistance. What...
...time the health-care-cost explosion could be stemmed by a modified version of managed care, which is already being practiced by many health- maintenance organizations. It could be funded by a modest increase in taxes to provide coverage for the uninsured, though the Bush Administration would resist...
This is an old technique refined by Ronald Reagan and his budget director David Stockman: Spend enough money elsewhere, and you'll be able to resist calls for spending on programs you don't like. "We simply don't have the money. We spent it all on guns...
...poor judgment and inexcusable insensitivity toward other oppressed groups should not be placated by the rest of the community. Hillel must not send mixed messages. If BSA issues an apology and retracts its invitation, there is reason to talk. If not, there is only reason to resist...
...supported the idea were blaming it for everything from male impotence to global warming. By the time she sank into the soft leather interior of the car that night at La Guardia, she was insecure as a junk bond, without energy, without hope and without enough self-esteem to resist this inappropriate but eager suitor. "This relationship," she writes, "became a final clue that I was really lost...