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...police would stand by and do nothing to stop this violence prior to the time a court injunction was issued." Several prominent Philadelphians, including former mayoral opponent Charles Bowser plan to circulate a petition in a few weeks calling for recall of the mayor. The chances of this tactic succeeding are small. A petition to recall requires 150,000 signatures all of which can easily be challenged. Each signee must give extensive information about his whereabouts including ward and telephone numbers. I spoke to people in several wards of downtown Philadelphia last week who said they feared physical retribution...
Back home, the Democrats have not made a campaign issue of the affair-so far. But cold-warring Scoop Jackson will probably speak out sharply if the waves are not completely switched off pretty soon. Meanwhile, some former employees are considering legal action. One tactic may be to sue the department for more details, under the Freedom of Information Act. Anxieties about long-range effects of microwave exposure persist. Said one angry former Moscow resident: "One of the things I'm not going to give up my life for is intercepting the conversations of Leonid Brezhnev in his limousine...
Childlike Level. Bailey let West talk on and on, a tactic that angered Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bancroft. Carter agreed with Bancroft, telling Bailey to stick to questions and answers. But in time Carter grew irritated with Bancroft's protests and said: "If you say he [Bailey] doesn't have the right to object I'll tell you to go soak your head." (Albert Johnson, Bailey's assistant, later gave Bancroft a bottle of shampoo...
...Soviets view détente-as permanent peaceful coexistence? As a way of maintaining East-West balance? As a tactic to lull the West into relaxing its vigilance? Foreign-policy experts have been debating this issue since the early 1970s, when Washington and Moscow proclaimed their intent to work for a reduction of world tensions. Although taking a hopeful view of the long-term trend of U.S.-Soviet relations, Henry Kissinger has recently warned Americans against expecting too much of détente, which Kremlin hard-liners have long described as a mere tactic. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid...
...propaganda campaign of the more substantially foreign-backed parties. Inside Angola however, that reality could be more readily comprehended. Both MPLA and FNLA had launched their guerrilla struggle in the early 1960's against the Portuguese from military bases in neighboring countries, MPLA in Zambia, FNLA in Zaire. The tactic of occasional forays across the border into Angola, followed by a quick retreat to a foreign base, began in both cases to seriously alienate the peasantry and created an obstacle to further development of the resistance movement. The peasant population resented the technique whereby roving guerrilla bands moved...