Word: planned
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...team's strategy angered Beaulieu even more--Harvard had a deliberate game plan, which focused on setting up the open shot and placed no emphasis on the transition game. This didn't, and couldn't, appeal to talented athletes accustomed to displaying their impressive skills. Beaulieu claimed that most of the talented players at Harvard didn't play for the varsity team, but instead preferred to play the more informal style of intramurals...
...Washington's game plan remains vague. The Administration has pledged that no deal will be cut with Noriega to quash the drug indictments. And a high-level official says that a fraudulent election will prompt the U.S. to consider new "diplomatic, intelligence and military" options, the first time the Bush team has suggested an armed intervention...
...Panama's problem is not just Noriega. The general's friends say he is tired of facing down the gringos, but even if he capitulates, there is little evidence that the defense forces plan to retire to the barracks. "For real democracy to take place in Panama," Moss warns, "it will be a long-term workout, a gradual weaning away of the military from direct power." To encourage that, the Bush Administration must enlist Latin American allies. Recourse to the big stick will only sour relations with the region...
Elections would be acceptable, they said, only as part of a defined process leading toward Palestinian independence. The statement was also intended to remind exiled P.L.O. leaders, who had avoided an outright rejection of the Shamir plan in their dialogue with the U.S., not to squelch the uprising without exacting major concessions from Israel...
...downplayed the diplomatic damage by maintaining that the Shamir proposal remained "very much alive." But some hard-liners in Israel have rejected the election plan. Administration sources say the negative positions taken by the Palestinians and some Israelis are just part of a bargaining process that could yet make elections possible as part of a comprehensive solution...