Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...version of the events that led up to last week's indictments, the Berrigan circle?a very loosely organized group that numbers 50 to 100 militants ?had been discussing for more than a year various means to dramatize its opposition to the war. One tactic was a continuation of draft-board raids. Another approach was the kidnaping-bombing plan, which some in the circle objected to as violent. Others argued that neither kidnaping nor bombing constituted violence in a moral sense, since no person would be physically harmed. According to this account, because something more serious than burning draft...
...defects as a revolutionary tactic. Thomas Buck, who sees the Berrigans once a month at Danbury, reports that they talked it over following the kidnaping of Pierre Laporte and James Cross by Quebec separatist terrorists. "They deplored the Canadian thing," says Buck. Only after Hoover's Nov. 27 charge, he insists, did he and the Berrigans consider kidnaping as a possible technique for the peace movement. "We were always exploring these ideas," he says, "but that's what it was ?exploring an idea. They concluded that it would be counterproductive...
...group grew out of four meetings held by Sydney Peck, co-founder of the National Mobilization to End the War, which attempted to "define a multi-issue, multi-tactic coalition with responsiveness to both peace and social issues...
...This harassment is part of a greater plan to attack our office. We expect the pigs to wipe us out imminently. This morning's action was not a scare tactic but a dry run to check the response of the people," Jones said yesterday...
Reagan's Tactic. For those Governors who had hoped that Sun Valley's blanket of snow might cool off Agnew's language, that was too much. Fumed Oregon's Tom McCall, who had earlier urged President Nixon to consider candidates other than Agnew for the 1972 ticket: "There was the most unbelievable, incredible misunderstanding of the mood of America in that rotten, bigoted little speech." Other Governors labeled it simply "defensive." By the time that Agnew sat down to a closed-door breakfast with 21 of the Governors, as he later put it in an understatement...