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...cattle farmer, held a buy-in in Spokane, Wash., while LAMP (Ladies Against Meat Prices) was picketing on the streets. Mrs. Kenny Williams, a LAMP leading light, said she welcomed such an expedition. "That shows the public where the money is-on the farm." Trying a more conciliatory tactic, a group of 21 farmers in Columbia, Mo., bought most of a store's meat supply and handed it out free to customers...
...West German offset agreements are to start within a matter of weeks, since the current agreement expires at the end of June. According to one reliable diplomatic source, Schmidt has been in " an unusually arrogant mood." In what may or or may not be a negotiating tactic, he told other officials that congressional sentiment in favor of the Mansfield amendment to reduce troops does not matter, that Nixon has pledged to keep all troops in Europe, and will do so even if the Germans refuse all payments. "He's got to keep his word, otherwise he undermines the Western...
After Means and Banks-both national AIM coordinators-joined AIM, the movement took a decidely militant turn. As early as March 1970, AIM gave warning that building takeovers might prove to be a useful tactic. On March 23, 1970, Means, then chairman of AIM's Cleveland chapter, was arrested for "trespassing" in the Cleveland...
What could bring a one-to-one policy? A strong piece of national legislation would be the easiest and, of course, the least likely route. Far more telling, though, will be pressure by the Harvard community. The most effective tactic will be for concerned students and alumni to make all pledged contributions contingent on the adoption of equal admissions...
...Temper. In fact Hoover spurned some orders from Presidents. He chaired a committee under Nixon in 1970, for example, that explored new tactics to investigate espionage, racial unrest, campus disorders and antiwar radicals. He was the lone dissenter when representatives of the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency urged that agents be allowed to expand surveillance to break in or otherwise "surreptitiously" enter the residences of suspects and examine personal papers or other documents. The White House approved the tactic and ordered its use, but Hoover continued to protest?and the order was finally abandoned...