Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's outbreak of "fatigue" among the controllers, the cause of the third air-traffic snarl in 20 months, had been forecast by PATCO a week in advance. Like the massive "slowdown" of the summer of 1968, the "sick-out" was another tactic in Bailey's continuing campaign to win PATCO recognition as sole bargainer for the controllers. The cause célèbre this time was the fate of three activist PATCO members in the FAA's Baton Rouge control tower. The agency has been trying to transfer the three for months...
...recommittal tactic would let off the hook those Senators who are increasingly unhappy about Carswell, since they could explain that they merely wished to have new questions looked into. Only four Republicans have publicly announced that they would vote against Carswell on the Senate floor, but burial in committee now looks attractive to a dozen G.O.P. Senators, maybe as many as 15. Democrat William Fulbright of Arkansas, a onetime law teacher who voted for Haynsworth, joined the defectors from Carswell while protesting that he does not concur in "the lack of enthusiasm in some circles for the appointment...
Jackson neither advocates nor castigates violence as a tactic, but he doubts its effectiveness. "Our experience with the hot war is that it is a bit futile, given the Man's military superiority," he says. "There is no more shock value in riots. The Man is ready for that too." But Jackson argues that whether blacks turn to violence will actually depend upon white decisions. "If more of us are starving, more of us will be fighting at the desperate level. If the question is survival, the reaction is independent of any black leader's thoughts of it. They...
...send a single Cambodian trooper, mounted on a motorcycle, to the site of a border violation. The soldier would race up to the invading troops, wave a Cambodian flag at them and try to persuade them to leave. It is a tribute to Cambodian bravado that the tactic sometimes worked...
Socialist Indira Gandhi, who has no great love for the Marxists, suspended rather than dissolved the Assembly. That tactic rules out quick elections, which the Marxists had hoped to win. Instead, other parties will have a chance to try to form a new government...