Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would merely give U.S. negotiators "a lever" to move the Japanese to accept voluntary quotas. When the Japanese balked, Nixon urged Congress to pass the bill. Mills, who did not want the stigma of having started a world trade war, felt that he had been had by the Nixon tactic. The bill whipped through the House, and on its way picked up provisions that would also have set quotas on shoes and many other products-thus inviting retaliation not only from Japan but from Europe as well. The highly protectionist bill was lost in a Senate logjam...
Radcliffe women seem troubled by their feeling that "the women are defending the action on a completely emotional basis." All in all, according to a South House resident, "most people here have enough doubts about one aspect of it or another-either gay relationships or the tactic, or the question of whether Harvard should provide a center-so that not many people can support it completely...
...personally-we cannot be indifferent to apartheid." But he argues that "resort to force would freeze the prejudice and fear which lie at the heart of the problem" and that rather than trying to isolate white regimes, "a combination of contact and moral pressure" is the best tactic. Throughout the report, Nixon repeatedly admits that his foreign policy options are severely limited by domestic opinion...
...viewpoint. For this reason, there has been less and less internal discussion in SDS and greater emphasis on leafleting and demonstrating-all on the basis of PL's political beliefs. Pro-PL members of SDS often accuse their opponents in SDS of using discussion time as a delaying tactic to avoid taking action. For example, after the last national conference in December, the SDS national committee voted nationwide anti-war protests for March 20 around two slogans: the first was "Smash racist unemployment," and the second was an unspecified anti-war slogan which was left up to the various regions...
...STORY of herbicide use in Vietnam is still incomplete-crop destruction by chemical spraying is still being used as a war tactic by the U.S. this year. However, the U.S. government has announced that no new chemicals are presently being bought, so that only existing stocks are being used; presumably, herbicide use will finally end soon. But the military use of herbicides in Vietnam is not new, and its lasting effects will be felt long after a change in American war policy...