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...three rounds. In order to participate in the second round, a party must obtain 17 per cent of the popular support, a coalition of three parties (for which only the extreme left qualifies) must obtain 30 per cent of the electoral balloting. These provisions purge the communist left and divert its votes at an early stage of the parcelling to the rightist majority...
Boston has run an extremely segregated school system for years and the busing issue is "a ploy to cover up the really disgusting state of schools in Boston and divert the people's attention from its," a teacher in the Boston school system said last night...
Safran said that American policy in the Middle East has focused on side issues to divert attention from its inability to achieve a permanent settlement...
...does not, South Korea will pay a heavy price, since it is heavily dependent on Japanese foreign aid and investment and cannot afford a total break in relations. Meanwhile, the surge of Korean nationalist feeling offers a temporary domestic benefit to Park: he can use anti-Japanese emotions to divert attention from his repressive policies at home. That, at least, was the opinion of many Japanese, who felt certain that last week's demonstrations had in part been carefully stage-managed from above...
...weapons fabrication and assembly plant that can manufacture ten fission warheads annually costs about $8 million to build. Each 20-kiloton warhead would run less than $15 million, plus the cost of the fissionable material. This is within the reach of even the most impoverished nation willing to divert resources from social programs...