Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the controversy set off by the mining of their harbors, the Sandinistas have refrained from a favorite tactic of the past: using the specter of imminent war with the U.S. to increase repression and further consolidate their political grip on the country. In fact, the Sandinistas were slightly loosening press censorship, and declaring their intention to proceed on schedule with national elections-criticized by the Reagan Administration as hopelessly biased in favor of the regime-on Nov. 4. Observed a Western diplomat in Managua: "For once, the Sandinistas seem to be handling the situation in a mature and sophisticated...
...support the Endowment is for support a tactic that can be used by many individuals or groups seeking to impose a wide variety of policies on the institution," the letter stated...
...attributed to the guerrillas. In 1983, she claims, there were 5,142 civilian victims of acts blamed on the security forces and 67 blamed on the guerrillas, a ratio of 76 to 1. In January and February, there was a decrease. But is not that just a tactic to create an illusion of authentic elections to please the U.S. and meet American demands? After showing me some gruesome photos of decapitated bodies, people missing limbs, others disfigured by acid-all the work of the death squads-the director says she is afraid that after March 25, when the outside world...
...defense, in turn, tries to prove the innocence of the accused, as in any other criminal case. But in most rape cases the defense uses a very specific tactic to establish this: it attempts to show that the woman invited the sexual assault, and therefore, the accused thought the woman wanted to have...
...increase U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens agreed to attach a request for $21 million for the rebels to a bill being considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide funds that would help poor people pay their fuel bills. The backfiring tactic was devised by top White House Aides James Baker and Richard Darman. Even some Republicans on the Republican-controlled committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote against aid to low-income Americans. The committee rejected Stevens' amendment...