Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe this is part of the tactic of the extremists. They are deliberately going out of their way to say that I can't be trusted. They don't believe I mean what I said. How was it that a few months ago I was saying something completely different? This doesn't connote sincerity, you see. Well, they are correct that a few months previously I was saying a different thing. However, I was forced to come to the conclusion that the free world was not going to go on giving us any support, that there wasn...
...issue is the decision of Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer to assure survival of Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government by a sophisticated tactic of "non-opposition" in the Chamber of Deputies. Berlinguer has had the P.C.I. Deputies (227 of 630) and Senators (116 of 315) abstain on key votes, thus lending implicit Communist support to unpopular government programs, including the stangata (sting)-the tough austerity measures that, among other things, have hiked the price of gasoline by 25% (bringing it to $2.25 a gal. for super) and increased postal, electric and telephone rates. Communist leaders argue that...
...strikes and protests that have been taking place across the country. This discord reached even into the highest echelons of the party. At the mid-October session of the central committee, the frail, 76-year-old Luigi Longo, who was Berlinguer's predecessor as party boss, challenged the tactic of non-opposition because it put "the interests of the party in second place [merely] in order to show our national responsibility." He was countered by Giorgio Amendola, 69, a noted historian and essayist, who emphasized that Italy's current crisis (17% inflation, a $20 billion budget deficit...
...January. His question to Ford produced the famous gaffe on Eastern Europe, which Frankel, unbelieving, gave Ford a chance to correct. An equally pertinent Frankel question to Carter went unanswered as Carter unabashedly took off on his own prepared denunciation of Administration foreign policy. In this, Carter's tactic was reminiscent of the way General Charles de Gaulle, brushing aside a flurry of specific, needling press questions, would begin loftily: "I have been asked about Algeria." In a thousand living rooms, people might say, "Carter's not answering the question," but Carter was willing to take that chance...
...quite moderate in comparison to his fellow Republicans in the state delegation. He has complicated matters by attacking Bentsen from the left by support the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and from the right, by favoring state right-to-work laws and opposing oil company divestiture. This tactic has in effect reproduced Bentsen's problem of fracturing the electorate...