Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the Governor tried another kind of pressure tactic. He ordered the state controller to make out the quarterly voucher for the expenses of the mansion to himself and not to Bootsie. "I don't know why he did it," she objected. "Why is he changing a system that was working so well? We always paid our bills on time. Will the Governor do the same...
...face deeply lined, his raspy voice clearly conveying his indignation, Petersen, 52, rejected all charges at that time that his division's Watergate prosecution had been lax. His tactic, he testified, was to get convictions against the actual burglars, then grant them immunity against further prosecution and pressure them into revealing the higher origins of the crime. He claimed that the case had been 90% solved when it was taken away from him. "Damn it!" he protested. "I resent the appointment of a special prosecutor...
...been accused include ordering Hunt to fabricate a State Department cable that would make it appear that the Kennedy Administration was involved in the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Diem in 1963; urging that Washington's Brookings Institution be fire-bombed as a diversionary tactic to cover a raid to seize some politically damaging documents; leaking information to LIFE for a story in 1970 that helped defeat Maryland's Demoera tic Senator Joseph Tydings; proposing that demonstrators posing as antiwar activists disrupt the funeral services for J. Edgar Hoover in May 1972, which would have...
...G.O.P. National Convention, Tuck wandered around creating havoc by spreading phony stories about rival candidates and setting one against another-a tactic not too far removed from some of Segretti's machinations. Once Barry Goldwater was nominated, he replaced Nixon as Tuck's chief victim. The prankster smuggled a comely girl onto the Goldwater train; every six hours until she was caught, she put out a newsletter ridiculing the campaign. Two years later, Tuck turned serious about politics-or so it seemed. He ran for the California state senate. He professed to be mortally afraid that Nixon would...
Long worried by overwhelming U.S. ownership of some major industries, Canadians are trying a new tactic for redressing the balance: they are moving to buy up foreign-owned firms in key areas, particularly natural resources. Last week the government-owned Canada Development Corp. made a $290 million tender offer for shares in U.S.-owned Texasgulf Inc., a large natural-resource company that has piled up high profits by digging deep holes in the ground...