Word: tactical
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...punished without trial before a court. Civilians may be removed from their homes for imperative military reasons, but they must be returned as soon as local combat ends. They may not be used to protect combatants, whether by placing them inside military objectives (a Viet Cong tactic) or by forcing them to precede troops across minefields, a practice that Calley admitted to without a qualm...
Members of the Liberation Alliance at a meeting yesterday disagreed about whether the disruption was a success. Many members agreed with SDS and UAG that it had been a "complete success," but others said that it was a bad tactic for building mass, popular support. "It looks as though we've come out on the bad side of an issue, in the eyes of most students," one admitted...
...Ericka Huggins-Angela Davis Defense Workshop called for the freedom of the two women political prisoners and all other political prisoners. A minority faction of the Congress said that certain "ambiguities concerning Huggins' alleged crimes" made it a "bad tactic" to class her with Davis...
...Cribb's handlers saw that he was unable to continue, but instead of throwing in the towel, went to the referee charging that Molineaux had lead weights concealed in his fists. The referee, who by the rules should have given the fight to Molineaux, played along with the stalling tactic of Cribb's handlers, waiting for Cribb to revive. In the interim, Molineaux, unaccustomed to the climate, developed a chill. Cribb won in the 40th round...
...British press denounced the tactic used against Molineaux, but the tactic itself was only an unsophisticated beginning. For black fighters were not only cheated in the ring; they were kept out of it. The Southern planters, who had found it as profitable and more entertaining than cock-fighting to pit their darkies against each other, found themselves in the shadow of black fighters such as Vesey, L'Ouverture, and Turner and did not wish to promote combativeness of any form among their slaves. How could they make their other slaves stand in fear if there were a black man amongst...