Word: undercutting
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Students said they took over the administration offices because the college's canceling classes served to undercut the strike. "We feel we must demonstrate that the strike is still on, and we feel this action will strengthen the position of the negotiating team," an occupiers' statement said...
...streetfighting was to raise the cost of continuing the war in Vietnam. At the same time, radicals are trying to force liberal politicians out of their passive assent to war policies and into active opposition. But instead of setting up anti-war electoral campaigns. Wednesday's action will probably undercut liberal opposition to suppression of the radical movement. The further notion of the demonstration's leaders, that massing people in the streets will spring Bobby Scale from jail is hardly realistic. It is doubtful that even the widespread streetfighting predicted for coming weeks can affect his fate...
...distance may have afforded him a singularly clear vision. He is slow to paint anyone in unrelieved black. He describes middle-level bureaucrats, the same men who undercut his efforts at every turn in the Peace Corps, as victims of the Machine no less than himself. His condemnation of institutions rather than men may be equivocating from a radical's point of view. But the multi-dimensionality of the officials in Cowan's account (like Erich Hofmann, the "poor schlemiel of an ex-Luftwasfe pilot" who wanted to squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship...
There was a good chance that violence could have been avoided. Many other South Carolina communities have integrated peacefully. Responsible groups in Darlington County, where Lamar is situated, had worked actively for community acceptance of integration. But their efforts were undercut by officials seeking gain from racial turmoil. Most blatant was Congressman Albert Watson, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Democratic Governor Robert McNair went on television Jan. 27 and told South Carolinians that "we've run out of courts, and we've run out of time, and we adjust to new circumstances." Watson gleefully accused...
...been briefing the CIA on his meetings. Thus there is little likelihood that he really believed Chau was in league with the enemy. Evidently, what the South Vietnamese President really feared was Chau's potential strength as an opposition leader. In recent months, Thieu has relentlessly maneuvered to undercut Chau. He has publicly denounced the presence of "Communist elements" in the 137-member lower house; government-paid demonstrators have been sent storming into the Assembly to break windows and furniture. Finally, last month, Thieu rammed through a petition stripping Ho and Chau of their legislative immunity. Though several Deputies...