Word: deflections
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...informed their American counterparts that 117 Soviet citizens who have relatives in the U.S. would be permitted to join them. In addition, Boris Gulko, a former national chess champion who applied seven years ago to emigrate to Israel, finally received permission and flew to Vienna. Such gestures may temporarily deflect criticism of the way the Soviet Union treats dissenters. But nothing would accomplish that goal so effectively as giving Sakharov and his wife a chance to spend the rest of their lives in peace...
...lies." The Soviet leader spoke of stories citing "thousands of casualties, mass graves of the dead, desolate Kiev, that the entire land of the Ukraine has been poisoned, and on and on." Such accounts, Gorbachev said, reflected the desire of "certain Western politicians" to "defame the Soviet Union" and deflect growing criticism of the "militaristic course" of U.S. policy...
...intensifying his country's troubles. "The more we reform, the fiercer the international campaign against us," he said. At week's end the government imposed restrictions on press coverage of strikes, riots and other social unrest. Even before the voting, the ever cautious Botha government was trying to deflect right-wing attacks. At a public meeting in Sasolburg, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha responded to the furor over the Van den Bergs, who now live in a mixed-race trailer camp, by saying that housing rules would have to be reviewed. That sort of equivocation did not impress voters...
...those shots that O'Gorman didn't grab or deflect sailed just over the Big Red crossbar...
...Leelee had a really strong shot and I just tipped it in," Felsen said. "If I can, I always try to deflect shots. The goalie has a tougher time getting to them...