Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There were hints that B-52s-which last week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...
...there is no sign of any let-up. Arthur W. Hummel Jr., deputy assistant Secretary of State told the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees on April 16 that the Nixon administration would continue to bomb until it achieves an effective cease-fire. Such a tactic, Hummel added, was "vindicated" in Laos. But according to Defense and State Department officials, the situation in Cambodia has greatly complicated the problem of working out a cease-fire because "the Khmer insurgent groups" are divided into factions: for and against Sihanouk and pro-Hanoi, pro-Moscow and pro-Peking...
...repeat of last year's race when Petty waged a long fender-crashing duel with Allison before pulling ahead to win in the final laps. But Petty, a "charger" who likes to "drive the way I feel it," plays it crafty. Instead of "drafting"−a risky tactic Petty invented, in which he practically sits on an opponent's tail pipe, using the partial vacuum created by the lead car as a fuel-and engine-conserving tow−he hangs on Allison's flank and then passes him on the outside. When Allison regains the lead, Petty...
...proxy resolution has been the chief weapon of advocacy groups so far. The tactic has offered a number of advantages, especially in raising issues of which corporations have seemed to be unaware...
...West German offset agreements are to start within a matter of weeks, since the current agreement expires at the end of June. According to one reliable diplomatic source, Schmidt has been in " an unusually arrogant mood." In what may or or may not be a negotiating tactic, he told other officials that congressional sentiment in favor of the Mansfield amendment to reduce troops does not matter, that Nixon has pledged to keep all troops in Europe, and will do so even if the Germans refuse all payments. "He's got to keep his word, otherwise he undermines the Western...