Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fall of Buta. It was a tactic that had worked often in the past, but last week it failed. At Likati, a village 65 miles from Buta, Hoare's men ran into three Portuguese hostages-all impaled on spears. Nine other Europeans lay dead or dying along the road. When the columns rolled into Buta, the rebels had already fled and only eleven survivors were anywhere to be found. Two nights earlier, the Simbas had thrown 31 Belgian and Dutch priests to the crocodiles. Militarily, the operation was a success: Hoare lost only four men in wiping...
...liberals to accept a moderate labor control bill. He implies that their failure to do so contributed to the eventual passage of the strongly anti-labor Lanrum-Griffin bill. In the civil rights fight of 1960, he again took an establishment position. He refrained from participating in the DSG tactic--which violated House rules--of publicizing names of those Republicans who hadn't signed the discharge petition. After the bill had been emasculated by the Senate he urged liberals to accept what they could get. (Compare Senator Joseph Clark's description of the 1960 fight in Congress: The Sapless Branch...
Debating the issue of Vietnam with Daniel Ellsberg '52, Special Assistant in the Department of Defense, Hoffmann began his attack by agreeing with ten points of Administration policy, a tactic which Ellsberg admitted was "very disarming...
...chain of military movements that could have ended in a coup -Quat quickly brought the mutineers to trial for breach of discipline. At the same time, he suspended Cang pending a full investigation of the mutineers' charges: graft and malfeasance. Military order was maintained, and the customary Vietnamese tactic of taking the law into one's own hands was sternly rejected...
Since 1933, six U.S. Governors have resigned from office, turned their jobs over to their lieutenants and, by prearrangement, been named to fill vacancies in the U.S. Senate. Voters have not exactly appreciated this tactic, and of the six, five were defeated when they actually ran for the office...