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...preface, "I understand your problems?and if you can't come with us, I'll understand." So a legislator leaves feeling that no commitment was asked or given. But if he votes his constituency against the White House, the President feels betrayed. On any issue, the more effective tactic for a President, maintains Neil MacNeil, is to "flat-out demand the vote, leaving unspoken any matter of forgiveness or understanding, and let the Senator sweat out whether there might be political retaliation...
...version of the events that led up to last week's indictments, the Berrigan circle?a very loosely organized group that numbers 50 to 100 militants ?had been discussing for more than a year various means to dramatize its opposition to the war. One tactic was a continuation of draft-board raids. Another approach was the kidnaping-bombing plan, which some in the circle objected to as violent. Others argued that neither kidnaping nor bombing constituted violence in a moral sense, since no person would be physically harmed. According to this account, because something more serious than burning draft...
...defects as a revolutionary tactic. Thomas Buck, who sees the Berrigans once a month at Danbury, reports that they talked it over following the kidnaping of Pierre Laporte and James Cross by Quebec separatist terrorists. "They deplored the Canadian thing," says Buck. Only after Hoover's Nov. 27 charge, he insists, did he and the Berrigans consider kidnaping as a possible technique for the peace movement. "We were always exploring these ideas," he says, "but that's what it was ?exploring an idea. They concluded that it would be counterproductive...
...group grew out of four meetings held by Sydney Peck, co-founder of the National Mobilization to End the War, which attempted to "define a multi-issue, multi-tactic coalition with responsiveness to both peace and social issues...
...This harassment is part of a greater plan to attack our office. We expect the pigs to wipe us out imminently. This morning's action was not a scare tactic but a dry run to check the response of the people," Jones said yesterday...