Word: tactical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Western intelligence analyst in Saigon has warned that the Communists may use the economic malaise to alienate the South Vietnamese from their government. Thieu's monopolization of power could make him vulnerable to this Communist tactic because, as former Ambassador Robert Komer (head of the pacification program in South Viet Nam from 1967 to 1968) has observed: 'Thieu is progressively isolating himself from the mainstream of Vietnamese politics by running things by cronyism...
...Banks family was subdued, but not as visibly tense as Means or his wife. I asked Mark Banks, Dennis's brother, if he thought the 1868 treaty between the U.S. government and the Sioux would be admissible evidence; he said he certainly hoped so. (But this defense tactic could backfire: The treaty grants much of western South Dakota to the Sioux, but it also permits Federal forces to intervene in disturbances on that land...
...their oil, Simon asked the Coast Guard, Maritime Administration and even the CIA to check. Characteristically, he then brought the matter up voluntarily at his weekly press conference, before anyone had a chance to ask. His report: only normal tanker traffic had been discovered. Anyway, he added, the rumored tactic would make no sense, because the oil could legally be sold only for its original cost plus freight charges and normal profit markup...
...applaud his results?using the criminal-sentencing process as a means and tool for further criminal investigation of others," contends Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association. The association's president-elect, James Fellers of Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic to "the torture rack and the Spanish Inquisition." Argues Law Dean Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University: "Sirica deserves to be censured for becoming the prosecutor himself." The University of Chicago's Law Professor Philip Kurland considers the harsh original sentences "a form of extortion...
...Finally, in 1971, H. Keith Zahn went to federal court and sued the New York pulpmaker on behalf of himself and some 200 others who owned Vermont land fronting on the lake. Alleging $40 million in overall damages because of the pollution, Zahn was relying on the newly popular tactic of the class action, which allows a large group with a common complaint to join together in one suit. Last week the Supreme Court dug in its heels and decided 6-3 that Zahn's class-action suit must collapse because some of his neighbors were not eligible plaintiffs...