Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YOUNG: I think it's clear that a slightly new strategy is called for. Any further riots will be met with swift massive law enforcement, so riots as a possible tool certainly quickly outlived their usefulness. I think the tactic of violence or at least the expression of violent intent was dramatically shown to be totally inadequate and useless as dramatized in the case of the Panthers more recently...
...ANOTHER tactic of questionable effectiveness is the proposed May 9 demonstration in Washington. Before concentrating their energies toward this demonstration, strike leaders should ask themselves what will come afterward. When the buses return from Washington will most demonstrators, feeling they've made their contribution, disappear completely from the movement and spend the remainder of the strike on Cape Cod? Moreover, the short time available for planning the demonstration, and the experience of April 15 in Boston would seem to indicate that going to Washington en masse could produce sporadic street-fighting, and a further division of the movement from...
...Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, students were still protesting the use of dogs and tear gas and the arrest of 170 anti-ROTC demonstrators the week before. Last week the protesters used a new tactic. By flushing toilets and turning on showers and faucets at the same time, they ran off 5,000,000 gallons of water and temporarily deprived the whole town (7,500 residents and 11,500 students) of its water supply...
...validity of politicizing others as a tactic is always questionable. My difficulty is not with the tactic as such, but with the way it almost inevitably becomes an occasion for manipulation of others, on behalf of more or less laudable purposes...
...minutes later, Apollo 13 began its novel separation procedures. Again hitting the thrusters, Lovell forced Aquarius against the command and service modules. Almost simultaneously, Swigert fired several explosive bolts, detaching the service module from Odyssey. Lovell also fired the LM's thrusters again. The "push-pull" tactic shoved the service module away from Aquarius and Odyssey, enabling the astronauts to see the disabled module for the first time. It was an incredible sight. The module had lost an entire 15-foot-long panel covering Bay 4, and a tangle of wiring and debris trailed out of the gaping hole. Using...