Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary also to assume that it would never be welcomed by those who might be subject to it. It could not reflect national aspiration; this was a flat contradiction in terms. Communist power might seek to exploit social grievance. But this, it was assumed, would only be a tactic designed to win subservience to the ultimate imperial and conspiratorial purpose. And this being so, no nation should yield to such tactics even when the grievance--as might often happen--was real...
...pressure group for peace. Vietnam Summer, an anti-war program headquartered in Cambridge, will provide funds, advice and workers to any group (whether radical SDS or moderate Republican) seeking to reverse the Administration's present course. It will support education programs for conscientious objectors and slumdwellers, but its major tactic will be the teach-out, community organizing in middle class neighborhoods...
...Korea's World War II resistance hero against the Japanese. Kim took full party power in 1955 and, through intrigue, murder, imprisonment and character assassination, managed to wipe out every shred of political opposition. A ruthless strategist and master manipulator, he holds onto power by the old Stalinist tactic of periodic purges. The most recent came last October when he shuffled the Central Committee, sacking three key officials and longtime associates...
...your schedule permits, it is best to try all of these things at the same time. This will mean days of practically full-time effort, but it will pay off in maximum exposure. This was the tactic followed by a famous lawyer who had just lost two important cases, F. Lee Bailey...
...Civil Rights Act. In Macon County, 97% of eligible whites were registered to vote v. 8% of eligible Negroes-the familiar result of intimidation and tricky tests applied only to Negroes. To avoid giving the federal courts a target for injunction, the Macon registration board periodically resigned. The tactic worked; Johnson found that the 1957 rights law authorized suits only against "persons." When the registrars resigned, there were no persons left to act against. The Justice Department could not sue the Governor, since he does not exercise direct control of registrars; Johnson therefore had to refuse an injunction plea against...