Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon tactic raised other troubling questions. If he was indeed so dedicated to principle, why not carry the matter to the highest court and get the favorable ruling that he said he so confidently expected? Or did he really expect the decision to go against him? The argument that international pressures arising in the Middle East would not permit such a delay seemed superficial. Nixon was not at all likely to be more seriously wounded by Watergate pending such a decision than he already had been-and the war crisis might well have abated by the time the tapes issue...
Next he is likely to ask that Ehrlichman's trial be severed from that of the other break-in defendants, a tactic that he has used effectively in the past. On one notable occasion, Ball successfully defended a land developer accused of bribing two L.A. harbor officials; tried separately, the hapless officials were found guilty of accepting the bribes. In recent years Ball has developed something of a side specialty in political bribery cases. "It got so bad for a while," he chuckles, "that my friends would say that politicians wait before taking a bribe to see how heavy...
...wanted to get the kids involved in the political process by working to boycott the stores that were fucking us over," Pitts said. But the third effort at boycott was not as successful as the first two, and the tactic was stopped...
Fist Banging. Desperately, Agnew went back to the tactic that he had first tried and then abandoned: working out a deal with the Justice Department under which he would be accused of a relatively minor charge if he agreed to resign. Known as "plea bargaining"-or, less elegantly, "copping a plea"-the practice is commonly used in all courts. The prosecution settles for a sure conviction rather than going to the trouble or expense of proving a more ambitious- and time-consuming-case in court...
...fighting in the area opposite Ismailia and the Firdan ridge. The Egyptian artillery was thick. Our tanks picked up casualties and took them along as we advanced because there was no immediate way the men could be evacuated." The Egyptians, he noted, "were fighting well, not running away. Our tactic the first two days was, as usual, to move forward, move forward. But as we advanced, we hit a wall of hundreds of missiles, tanks and heavy guns. There were heavy casualties on both sides-dead and wounded and burned-out tanks. They couldn't evacuate their dead...