Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serious Setback. If that was indeed the Communist strategy, the tactic clearly was to cut off Phnom-Penh from outside sources of supplies and military aid. Last week the city was at times completely isolated on the ground, with all major highways and railroads closed down by Communist troops and blockades. The train route to Bangkok was severed when Communist troops halted two trains, one a heavily loaded freight, the other carrying passengers. They carried off 200 tons of rice, forcing the passengers to act as porters, then destroyed both locomotives with B40 rocket blasts. That line also runs through...
WHAT OF Pusey's charges: that radicals have championed the Haler 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 masculating the young..." Pusey coyly adds that he knows that must sound fidiculous, but there are people who actually believe...
Most of these students would argue that if driven far enough, they would favor violence. But by and large, they are against it, not necessarily on principle but because they consider it a self-defeating tactic. It is odd to find, by the way, how grateful one is these days to anyone who announces that he eschews violence. It used to be a minimal attitude, it almost went without saying that one opposed violent methods. Now, on hearing that assurance, we are inclined to rush up to the speaker, shake his hand and embrace him as a brother moderate...
Speaking to constituents in his Midlands district of Wolverhampton, Powell last week charged that the sacrosanct Civil Service had "cruelly and persistently misled" the public as to the size of the immigrant problem. In a tactic reminiscent of the late Senator McCarthy, Powell said, "One begins to wonder if the Foreign Office is the only department of state into which enemies of this country have infiltrated...
...would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down." In Pusey's angry view, such agitators-specifically, the S.D.S.-use techniques akin to those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force in our society which serves the interest of a hideous military-industrial complex...