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...Finally, in 1971, H. Keith Zahn went to federal court and sued the New York pulpmaker on behalf of himself and some 200 others who owned Vermont land fronting on the lake. Alleging $40 million in overall damages because of the pollution, Zahn was relying on the newly popular tactic of the class action, which allows a large group with a common complaint to join together in one suit. Last week the Supreme Court dug in its heels and decided 6-3 that Zahn's class-action suit must collapse because some of his neighbors were not eligible plaintiffs...
Administration lobbyists quickly SUPported Allen's delaying tactic. "They were all over the place," said Kenneth Davis, an aide to Senator Scott. "Their first interest was in getting the debt bill...
...midweek, the Governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania had ordered state police and National Guard units to drag stopped trucks off the road and arrest any drivers who tried to interfere. That tactic broke the traffic jams, but the truckers are determined to continue their protests until the Nixon Administration gets fuel prices reduced, raises speed limits or both. Some are trying to organize a nationwide strike for Thursday and Friday this week...
...ancient dictum that has survived is the strategy of using "barbarians to control barbarians," especially since the growth of Sino-Soviet tensions. China now seems to be ready to use this tactic more agressively than it ever did during the Empire...
...economizing on energy is old news. "The English advise one to gravitate toward rooms full of warm bodies and drink lots of warming spirits, two energy-conserving principles that rind their ultimate expression in a communal effort called a licensed public house." Says Kramer: "I can especially recommend this tactic...