Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friedenberg, a professor at State University of New York at Buffalo, said the police tactic must have seemed to the youths "an ambush from within the University...
...fledgling union seemed to have little chance of success. The growers had powerful political and financial allies in the state, and there was plenty of nonunion labor available to do the ill-paid, back-breaking vineyard work. But in 1968 Chavez applied what turned out to be a brilliant tactic: a nationwide boycott of table grapes. That move mustered wide support from urban liberals and succeeded in cutting the public demand for grapes-and thus the price the growers received-to the point where many producers suffered...
...Historian Gabriel Kolko suggests a political deficiency, calling the use of the Bomb and reliance on Russian intervention "a triumph of conservatism and mechanism" in U.S. policy. Whether the failing be moral or political, however, it remains the same-a lack of imagination, an unwillingness to risk a new tactic even in a new situation...
...hostility; second, and this is the main point, trashing, looting and bombing are not to be done indiscriminately and should for the short-term be suspended: although terrorism can serve on occasion as a thermometer in reading just how radical certain groups of people are, terrorism as a steady tactic is an appropriate instrument in building a movement only when masses of people engage in it or approve of it, and we have not arrived at that point...
Hoping to ward off a repetition of last year's invasion by protesters, the A.M.A. had scheduled an opening-day public forum at which consumer groups were invited to air their complaints. The tactic failed. Immediately after the call to order, 30 to 40 dissidents took over the platform and microphones, elected their own chairman, and turned the forum into a farce. While the panel doctors looked on as helpless captives, the forum dispatched a delegation-consisting of spokesmen from the Medical Committee for Human Rights, the National Welfare Rights Organization and several Women's Liberation groups...