Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among all the verbiage and glossy photos of bombs exploding in Beirut, one must not forget that the shelling has been brought about by the P.L.O.'s tactic of establishing itself amid the civilian population and refusing to leave the city. The disunity and weakness of the Lebanese as well as their unwillingness or inability to expel the terrorists must also be viewed as some of the factors leading to the present situation...
Wills, on a Dodger team scrambling for runs, made base stealing a respectable tactic, easing the way for the records of Brock and Henderson. Brock, who flew to Milwaukee last week to help Henderson celebrate, notes that the psychology of theft has not changed a bit since his own day: "What separates the great base stealer from the rest is arrogance. You have to eliminate all fear and declare war on the entire league." The guileless Henderson cites a less bellicose reason. Says he: "I've loved to steal bases since I was a little kid. That...
...System Director Thomas Turnage told a House subcommittee last March, "is not to prosecute or to incarcerate, but to get them to register." Barry Lynn, the antiregistration president of Draft Action, maintains that the Government's goal "is really to silence religious and political dissenters against conscription, a tactic used in the Soviet Union routinely." Whatever the aim, the first targets were 160 men who, like Eller, wrote the Government to announce their refusal to register or who were turned in by disapproving neighbors. The Justice Department decided to move against the 70 on the list who were "most...
...critical test would come in the House, where many Republicans were outraged at a Democratic tactic that the President had nothing to do with. After the Senate on July 23 had passed the tax bill without a single Democratic vote, House Democratic leaders refused to take the bill to the House floor. Instead, they went directly into a Senate-House conference committee, where the package was being prepared for probable consideration in both chambers this week. Most House Republicans refused to commit themselves to support a bill that they had not been allowed to shape...
Still, this time the Iranian high command abandoned its suicidal tactic of human wave assaults and adopted a more conventional deployment of armor and artillery to confront the Iraqis. The Iranian forces pushed eleven miles inside Iraqi territory before they were stopped by a ferocious counterattack near the strategic Iraqi port of Basra. For the spoils of a few miles of sun-baked marshland, some 2,000 Iranians lost their lives. Iraq now says that more than 21,000 Iranian troops have been killed in the abortive drive on Basra, while Iraqi casualties, though not publicized, are estimated...