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...thinks administrators "let programs hang" as long as possible, so that students will look for jobs elsewhere and remove the pressure on the government offices to hire them. Come June 15, programs may hire a few of the people who have not found other work. Through this delaying tactic, "some people will still have jobs, and the agency can say they've still had a program." Ruemelin concluded. Nonetheless, many students will have been left...
However, in the confusion there was, surprisingly, no censorship or harassment of reporters by the Thieu regime -at least for the moment. Such freedom was a marked change from the secret-police tactic of beating up Western newsmen covering demonstrations, or the possibility that the Information Ministry might not renew the visa of any reporter writing an unfavorable story. It was almost old home week for the press in Saigon. But the shadow of defeat darkened the occasion...
...Dilatory Tactic. Such tactics kept the issue in doubt for days; but the liberals patiently persisted. They got a boost from Rockefeller's ruling that each new Senate draws up its own rules and that until Rule 22 was readopted, only a simple majority was required to change past practices. Rockefeller was even more helpful when he deliberately refused to recognize Allen on three successive occasions when Allen sought futilely to make "a parliamentary inquiry." Although conservative Senators angrily assailed Rockefeller for this high-handed tactic, Rocky was technically right. The Senate rules specifically permit the presiding officer...
Faced with what he considered a profligate Congress, Richard Nixon transformed an occasional practice of former Presidents into a tactic of confrontation. Claiming he had a presidential right of impoundment, Nixon simply refused to spend at least $16 billion appropriated by Congress for a variety of projects. In 1973 the Supreme Court, aware that it might soon face more serious tests of presidential power, ducked the issue. Last week, with those problems behind them, the Justices turned to an impoundment-related suit and by a 9-to-0 vote delivered one more resounding no to the Nixon doctrine of Executive...
...mental book on players and recalls data on their habitual skating patterns. In the second or two that all this is going on, Parent begins to adjust his position to cut down the angle attackers have to shoot for open space in the net. Part geometry, part instinct, the tactic of "playing the angles" is Parent's greatest talent on the ice. "When he's doing it right," says Flyer Coach Fred Shero, "Bernie won't have to move his glove or his foot an inch either way to make a save...