Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pompidou last week learned to his embarrassment that Europe has outgrown the era of Charles de Gaulle. Frustrated by the "unrealistic dreams" of his fellow Europeans-that is, their desire to tiptoe toward supranationalism by strengthening existing Common Market institutions-Pompidou fell back on De Gaulle's favorite tactic of obstruction. He threatened to postpone the first summit of the expanded ten-nation EEC scheduled for Oct. 19-20 in Paris. Not long ago the threat would have sent neighboring statesmen scurrying for a compromise, but the general reaction from most West European capitals last week was: Go ahead...
Simply increasing the price of power could be expected eventually to reduce consumption. But even that straightforward tactic raises a difficult question. Since energy consumption and pollution have long been an element of the nation's prosperity, can we now conserve and clean up only by making life more expensive for everybody, including the poor? "Any effort to find a solution to the power crisis is certain to engage, at the deepest level, the nation's concept of social justice," says Biologist Barry Commoner. "The power crisis, like every other environmental issue, is not an escape from...
...comedy of the absurd, to a tragi-comedy of depression, to simple depression; from voice and action and thought, to action and thought, to just thought. But the external power is always there. The Caravan gives us no solution; they merely pose the dilemma--"hands-off!" is only a tactic. The Prologue indicates that it is only a delaying tactic at best...
Perhaps the turnout was so small because many antiwar activists were campaigning for liberal candidates or lobbying senators and congressmen. It seems more likely, however, that the old tactic of marches and sit-ins (and even lobbying and campaigning) has simply lost its appeal as a vehicle for initiating change...
...there is no doubt: the latest American tactic is a clear provocation. Nixon offered nothing new in his speech last night. He has been proposing an immediate ceasefire and a release of prisoners-of-war since October, 1970. Refusing to discuss a political settlement, he is asking the other side to give up their guns and their bargaining counters at once. He is demanding the surrender of the armed cadres of the Vietnamese liberation movement. The Vietnamese have been struggling far too long to give up now. But the President apparently is willing to destroy their country--and maybe ours...