Word: ploy
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After hearing impassioned pleas from General Fidel Ramos, the armed forces chief, and Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto, the President and her Cabinet last week agreed to sponsor a bill in Congress that would raise military salaries by 60%. Aquino also tried an old ploy: reaching for the halo of political sainthood. Playing on the meaning of corazon, she called herself the "heart of the republic" and said the rebels' aim "was clearly to kill the President and her family." Of Honasan's goals, she said, "Let not idealism be used to cover the darkest crimes and ambitions of men whose...
Although Secretary of State Shultz proclaimed that the Reagan-Wright plan was "not a ploy," there was reason for skepticism. The Administration has a history of announcing peace initiatives whenever contra funding is up for renewal. Late in 1984 a memo from John Poindexter, then Deputy National Security Adviser, to his boss, Robert McFarlane, set out a deceptive scheme: "Continue active negotiations but agree on no treaty and act to work out some way to support the contras either directly or indirectly. Withhold true objectives from staffs...
...Arias agreement could easily come unglued. But having proposed similar steps, the Administration was in no position to complain about what was decided in Guatemala. Indeed, in a statement released last Saturday, the President said he welcomed the rival proposal. If his plan had been intended partly as a ploy to get more contra funding, it had backfired. As long as the Central American peace process continues, however hesitantly, Congress will almost certainly be unwilling to renew the military funding that will soon run out for Reagan's favorite freedom fighters. And the willingness of Honduras to go along with...
Gorbachev's ploy: agreeing to accept a long-standing American preference for the elimination by both sides of all intermediate- and shorter-range missiles in Asia as well as Europe. Ironically, that arrangement -- known in the arcane lingo of arms control as "global double zero" -- was first put forward by U.S. negotiators six years...
Gorbachev used what seemed to be an unlikely medium to unveil his ploy: an Indonesian newspaper, to which he granted an interview. Gorbachev's offer effectively removed one of the last major U.S. conditions for an INF agreement covering not only intermediate-range missiles (with a range of 600 to 3,500 miles) but shorter-range missiles (300 to 600 miles) as well. Until last week Moscow had been willing to agree only to eliminate intermediate- and shorter- range missiles from Europe while insisting on retaining 100 intermediate- range SS-20 missiles in Asia. In return the U.S. would have...