Word: tacticians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a catchy name and a talent for publicity. Their methods are crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly repressive measures that will "radicalize" nonviolent citizens and thus bring on the revolution...
Died. Ezzard Charles, 54, hard-luck heavyweight boxing champion from 1949 to 1951; after a seven-year bout with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative muscular disease; in Chicago. A superb tactician, Charles took the heavyweight crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in 1949, but even then he faced an uphill battle for popularity. It became steeper when he ended a comeback try, outpointing the aging Joe Louis in 15 rounds in 1950. Knocked out a year later by Walcott, Charles made several comeback attempts before slipping into obscurity and penury...
...superb tactician who can play hound or hare with equal skill...
...also a brilliant tactician, capable of the drop shots and lobs that make for a varied pace of play. He expects that hard-soft mix to be a telling weapon against Connors. "This will be a mental battle," Newcombe says. "I won't be offensive all the time. I'll stay back and slow-ball him sometimes and let him make the mistakes...
...Thieu's execution of that strategy. A "retrograde" maneuver ? as the experts euphemistically term such a withdrawal ? requires extensive planning and a coordinated command structure. Elaborate measures must be taken to save all equipment possible and to destroy what cannot be moved. "Above all," says a Pentagon tactician, "you must inform your subordinates of all phases of the plan...