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...Christian Democrats' main campaign tactic recently has been to play on popular fears of their chief opponent, D'Aubuisson's right-wing party, ARENA. A recent Christian Democrat documentary, entitled D'Aubuisson Naked, showed film clips of the rightist leader making public threats against political and religious figures who were later assassinated or attacked. Images of the bodies or funerals were spliced into the film. Among the victims: the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated by a gunman while saying Mass at the altar on March...
...longer afford the school's $850 yearly tuition. Enrollment had dropped steadily for a decade. The full tuition fell far short of the school's cost per pupil (estimated at $1,400 a year), but no increase was possible. Then school officials decided to try a new tactic: negotiating tuition...
This is no more than saying that I recognized Haig as formidable. One of the most useful tools for a chief of staff is to present unpleasant orders as emanating from an implacable superior; it was a tactic I used in my relationship to Nixon. Nor had I strenuously objected when others had put me in the position of the good guy in the White House. In that sense Haig hoisted me with my own petard...
Yale surprised aquamen by coming into Kiphuth Exhibition Pool shaved and tapered practices reserved for only the most important competitions and unusual with the Eastern Seaboard Championship less than one week away. Using the tactic to the fullest, the Elis grabbed the 400 tree relay by eight 100ths of a second touching out the Crimson relay of Bob Hrabehak, Jim Carbone, Jack Gauthier and Mike Miao...
...designed to fail. It has no power to grant degrees or even to offer courses of its own. The only "power" it has is to plead and cajole other departments in to betting up their own offerings By now, it is clear the committee is just a diversionary tactic, granting on paper what it will never grant in reality...