Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaullist Mantle. Chaban's major campaign tactic has been to wrap himself in the Gaullist mantle. In the halls in which he speaks, his photo is flanked by those of Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou. As the symbol that will appear beside his name on the ballot, he has chosen De Gaulle's emblem, the cross of Lorraine-a reminder of Chaban's key role during the Resistance. After attending a Chaban rally outside Paris, TIME Correspondent George Taber noted: "Over the auditorium hung an aura of nostalgia and past triumphs. The audience was made...
...question invariably in jurors' minds: "Why would a person he?" Usually the contention has been that the defendant was trying to conceal a criminal act. Consequently, most perjury charges are brought in conjunction with other criminal allegations. Such a coupling of charges can be a useful prosecution tactic. Quite often, the available evidence is not adequate to get a conviction for the original criminal act, but in front of the grand jury the defendant may have contradicted himself or others so much that he can be caught in a lie. Defense attorneys argue that the ploy is open...
...tactic seems not only imaginative but a bit desperate. For nine months, the union has struck the Brookside, Ky., mine of Eastover Mining Co., which is owned by Duke Power, over health and safety standards. Success is crucial to U.M.W. efforts to sign up the mines of Harlan County-still known as "Bloody Harlan" because of the tear gas bombings, shootings and beatings during a U.M.W. organizing drive in the 1930s. The U.M.W. is convinced that Eastover will never settle unless the parent Duke Power insists that it do so. And Eastover needs to hold out only three more months...
...arguments fell apart under questioning, Boyle tried a final tactic. "Jock Yablonski and I were very close friends," he said. "The day after I heard of the murder I put up $50,000 in reward money for the apprehension of the killers." Sprague then turned to Suzanne Richards, Boyle's executive assistant for 20 years. Richards said that it was she who proposed a reward-for $100,000 -and prepared a press release to that effect. "I gave it to Boyle, who said he'd think about it. Later, he said he was against any reward...
Many officials see the current imbroglio as a Kissinger tactic to stop Europe from playing any role at all in international affairs, outside of being simply an extension of U.S. foreign policy. Said one French diplomat: "Kissinger is attempting to bring the Nine into an Atlantic system whereby they will be able to take only decisions that are approved in Washington." Kissinger irritated European leaders in his Atlantic Charter speech last April when he stated that the nations of the Continent had only "regional" interests while the U.S. had "global" ones. He now seems to be denying them even...