Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unfortunately for tenants, who have nowhere near the financial resources necessary to combat Harvard's stable of lawyers, fighting the University in court is like going on safari holding a rifle filled with blanks. You can shoot all you want and still not hit a single target...
...when you're the victim, you think a lot. For the first few hours afterwards, your mind is bombarded with competing emotions, all uncontrollable. First relief that you're alive. Then rage that you could be such an easy target, that anyone could so totally and suddenly strip you of any personal autonomy, even for only 90 seconds. Then frustration--that you've got no money left before boarding for a five-hour trip to Boston, that you've just parted with an expensive and meaningful timepiece, that the police are never around when you need them (it took...
Enders see the situation in Central America rapidly polarizing people at irreconcilable extremes of the right and left. In Cambodia the government could not win political settlement with leftist guerrillas that would ensure free elections. Massive U.S. bombing - with some of the target coordinates reportedly transmitted by Enders himself - was too little and too late to win militarily. Enders denies charges that he willfully bombed civilians, although he says noncombatant to are inevitable. He recalls bitterly: "My experience there was to cover our withdrawal...
...some of the major figures in the current leadership. Among them: Kazimierz Barcikowski and Hieronim Kubiak, both Politburo members, and Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski. Since all three are close to Jaruzelski, who is thought to side with the moderates, the general also seems to be an indirect target. But Jaruzelski's position appears to be secure: not only does he control the army, he seems to enjoy the full confidence of the Kremlin. On the eve of the plenum, the Soviets publicly invited the general to consultations in Moscow this week. The timing was widely seen as a show...
Jaruzelski saved his rhetorical punches for a target that both wings of the party could unite in vilifying: the U.S., which he accused of waging a "propaganda and economic war" against his country. He charged that "psychological warfare services," presumably meaning Radio Free Europe, originated the widespread resistance slogan, "The winter is yours, the spring will be ours." Said he: "The spring will be neither 'ours' nor 'yours,' but simply Polish and socialist." The general blamed U.S. sanctions for aggravating food shortages by suspending poultry feed shipments and excluding Polish fishing fleets from American waters. Although...