Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinks in less kindly terms about the two superpowers' roles in the Middle East. He is known to believe that while the U.S. seeks peace there, Russia wants control. But there is a common interest?preventing the smaller countries from pulling Moscow and Washington into a major confrontation. His tactic throughout the hair-raising week, he said, was to "show great power but also to show great restraint...
...arewomen "might force us to eliminate a number of such distinctive groups entirely." Not only were they saying that women from minorities need no female companionship so 1200 women is enough while 3000 men is too few, but they were dusting off the familiar tactic of dividing one oppressed group's fight from another...
WHAT OF Pusey's charges: that radicals have championed the Hitler/McCarthy tactic of the "big lie." Pusey recalls in his speech the first bombasts of the new left, when, "the big lie let loose among us began to take shape; that is, that the University is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force, which serves the interests of a hideous military-industrial complex by doing its chores and by intellectually emasculating the young..." Pusey coyly adds that he knows that must sound ridiculous, but there are people who actually believe...
...committee threatened, admitting more women "might force us to eliminate a number of such distinctive groups entirely." Not only were they saying that women from minorties need no female companionship so 1200 women is enough while 3000 men is too few, but they were dusting off the familiar tactic of dividing one oppressed group's fight from another...
...discouraged the tactic, stating in a leaflet that trashing was an act of provocateurs which would be "stopped." No such outbreak occurred...