Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foes. In a letter to Republican Senator William Saxbe of Ohio, Richard Nixon denounced their opposition to his presidential prerogatives. "If the Senate attempts to substitute its judgment as to who should be appointed," he declared, "the traditional constitutional balance is in jeopardy" (see box). With that tactic, he thus made the issue an even bigger test of wills, and of his own prestige, than it had been before...
With less success, but considerable potential, Jackson has set up other Breadbasket operations in eight cities, including Los Angeles, Milwaukee. Indianapolis, Brooklyn, Houston and Cleveland. The effort in Cleveland was broadened to include political action. One surprising tactic there was designed to combat what blacks feared would be police harassment of black voters to prevent the re-election of Mayor Stokes last November. The interference was expected at polling places late in the day, when city voters usually turn out in greatest numbers. But Breadbasket sent its band, accompanied by some 600 black teenagers, into Negro areas...
...cartoon in Argentina's Mercado magazine last week listed the prevailing "exchange rates" for kidnaped diplomats: "Eight guerrillas for one Japanese consul; eleven political prisoners for one ambassador; 15 terrorists for one general; twelve Maoists for a minister." The tactic of the diplomatic kidnaping, however, has aroused more alarm than amusement in chancelleries around the world. Last week two more potentially deadly incidents took place...
...rebels be taken to a public square, where one would be shot every hour until Elbrick was released. Argentina's decision to say no to the kidnapers in the Sanchez case may mark a turning point in the way Latin American governments respond to the new terror tactic...
...planes have been arriving at Cairo airport in recent days at the rate of seven an hour-presumably bringing SA-3s as well as Soviet technicians to operate them. Ten to 15 SA3 sites have already been detected around Cairo, Alexandria and the Aswan High Dam. Israel's tactic at the moment is to ignore distant installations but to attack possible sites within 15 miles of the Suez Canal. While bombing such sites last week, Israeli planes were intercepted by Egyptian MIG-21s. Four MIGs were downed in one running dogfight and five in another, the biggest...