Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seasoned President's craftiest ploy may prove to be his handling of the elections. For more than a decade his regime has been accused of turning the traditional Philippine form of rigged voting into a fine art. Thus, for example, during the 1981 elections, local officials had no qualms about posing for a foreign photographer while handing out pesos to right-thinking voters. In anticipation of the coming elections, therefore, moderate opposition parties, business leaders and even reformists within his own party demanded that Marcos devise and play by some new rules. Again, in theory, he obliged. In late...
...foes, Pik Botha last week unexpectedly offered a totally new proposal calling for a comprehensive conference aimed at resolving at once all the complex interlocking disputes over Namibia. The initiative has caused deep apprehension among other negotiating parties, who strongly suspect that the plan amounts to a South African ploy to sidestep U.N. supervision of Namibian independence. Caught by surprise, nervous State Department officials are unsure whether South Africa means to sabotage the peace effort or to advance it. Says one analyst: "We're keeping our fingers crossed...
Nonetheless, on the day following the Star's story, sentries began searching all trucks and vans at the camp's gates. Said a satisfied Coughlin of his ploy: "Apparently it worked...
...release-four years early-stunned SWAPO officials and diplomats in London and the United Nations. Toivo made it clear that he felt he had been freed as a blatant propaganda ploy by South Africa, which has been trying to prove to U.S. diplomats that it is making good-faith efforts to negotiate with the guerrillas. Whatever the motives, Toivo's release is the latest in a series of fast-moving events that promises to alter radically the diplomatic, political and military situation in Southern Africa, long troubled by the hostile relationships between white-ruled South Africa and its black...
Hart also supports the freeze, but, unlike Mondale, he does not wallow in its symbolism, or pretend that a freeze can be easily negotiated. Despite increasingly hysterical charges by Mondale that Hart is the dupe of Reagan's legislative ploy to pass the MX missile proposal. Hart voted against the Reagan MX missile build-down program on October...