Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebuttal makes much of Hanoi's hope that the U.S. will reduce aid to Saigon. Martin casts Shipler in the role of Hanoi's tool, witting or unwitting. He refused to see Shipler, he says, because he would not cooperate in a "campaign to grossly deceive the American Congress and the American people...
Ever since the grand jury system started under Britain's King Henry II in 1166, it has been hailed as a guardian of the people and denounced as an oppressive tool of the government. Both descriptions can be accurate, for a grand jury is as good or bad as the people on it. The Watergate grand jury that handed up last week's historic indictment will be remembered as one of the best...
...continental shelf, belongs to SEDCO, Inc. and is leased to Shell Oil for a five-hole exploration at an estimated cost of $11.5 million. So far, only one wildcatter on this portion of the shelf has found any oil, and that was only in small pockets. But Gil Baucheis, "tool pusher" or chief honcho aboard SEDCO's barge, points out that wildcatters drilled in the North Sea for ten years before striking huge reserves...
...obstacle to keeping the programs genuinely voluntary is the tendency of prison administrators to see behavior mod as primarily a tool for maintaining order behind the walls. In many cases, says Illinois Legal Aid Lawyer Michael Deutsch, "the prisons take the programs over from doctors because it's a way of segregating the troublemakers." Roy Gerard, an assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, says flatly: "That's part of the consequence of committing a crime. You've automatically volunteered for the certain way an institution...
...Washington as well as at Castro, Brezhnev told the rally that Soviet weapons in Cuba were not "for attacking anyone but for defending your revolutionary gains." He warned Latin American leftists that despite "the fascist coup in Chile," Moscow was opposed to the use of subversion as a political tool. "Revolution feeds not on somebody's subversion or propaganda," he declared, "but on realities, on the unbearable conditions in which people have to live. The Soviet Union has always considered to be criminal any attempt to export counterrevolution. But neither are Communists supporters of the export of revolution...