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...that within the country, students and community organizations are becoming disillusioned with a process in which the interests of the vast majority of urban and rural poor are being compromised by the negotiation process. It is widely believed that the regime will continue to oppose real democracy through the tactic of delay and its complicity in political assassinations and terrorist violence. South Africans would do well to remember African-American struggles in the period after the 1965 Voting Rights Act and to understand the ways in which barriers to economic change remained even after access to the political kingdom...
...just a scare tactic," said Jonathan Keyston '95, who has received several tickets. "I would much prefer a policy that's more consistent, rather than all this bluffing...
...bomb the North's plutonium reprocessing plant and two reactors, neatly destroying the danger. But that is unrealistic: a strike could spread a big radioactive cloud over the peninsula, miss hidden weapons or start a devastating war between North and South Korea. A more practical tactic would be the imposition of economic sanctions by the United Nations -- but even if China, long friendly to the North, did not veto an embargo, Pyongyang might feel cornered and lash...
...with cultural difference: over here the simple fact of failure is not, as it is in Britain, considered amusing. Walk into any London pub, for example, and you'll find at least one group of drinkers vying for laughs with stories of the day's disasters. Try the same tactic to amuse a group of friends in a Cambridge bar and one is greeted with expressions of surprise, confusion and even alarm...
...council veteran chided Beys for hisrhetorical tactic of applying what she termed"peer pressure" to council members in urging themto support the motion...