Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors and "people sniffers" that respond electronically to the smell of ammonia in urine...
...subtlety. They tended to stay longer and seemed much more concerned about getting to the root causes of the conflict." The women had another advantage: a built-in "calming effect," discovered during psychodramas that were part of the guards' training. Enraged men, Sherman found, "simply could not respond as angrily or violently to the women...
Violence and extremism inevitably bear great costs--human costs and political costs. Vietnamese and Americans are paying the costs of an outrageous and extremist policy. But if we respond in kind, then the cost may be to destroy the political left. I know, from my work on electoral behavior, that disorder and violence always produce massive political reactions--usually among the very people who ought to be our natural allies in the movement for political change. One workman remarked to be that there might be fifty votes for Wallace among the men cleaning up the building that night...
PALC and Afro did not immediately respond to Steiner's letter, but showed no sign of preparing to leave. The building's occupants are in the second day of an indefinite hunger strike. According to a PALC-Afro statement released yesterday, the purpose of the hunger strike is "to increase and demonstrate their commitment to bringing about Harvard's divestiture of its Gulf Stock." Their diet consists solely of vitamins and liquids...
Isolated attacks on universities, and corporations as well, are pointless when serious efforts are being made throughout the country to protest the latest escalation of the war in Southeast Asia. History has shown that under sufficient pressure the American government, and the American people, respond to united and disciplined expressions of discontent. Just as surely, they are repulsed by aimless violence...