Word: ploy
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There is nothing wrong with such a public relations ploy. There was no shortage of salesmanship in the Nixon-Kissinger era, and Gorbachev's own proposals have been largely propaganda. But the trick--which Nixon and Kissinger mastered, and Gorbachev too seems to be learning quickly--is to play for the galleries without jeopardizing what can be achieved at the bargaining table...
...certain disappointment with the idea of Europe itself, a sense that the Continent's greatest postwar dream, West European integration, has lost momentum. Since the mid-'60s, the principal focus for that aspiration, the European Community, has been burdened by frequent bickering and haggling. Typical was the ploy carried off last month by Greece, which extracted subsidy increases for its farmers as a condition for agreeing to the enlargement of the Community from ten members to twelve, a measure planned to take effect in January...
...plots its defense against Ted Turner, it will undoubtedly take a close look at a ploy that was set in motion last week by Unocal, which is trying to escape a take-over bid by T. Boone Pickens. A partnership led by Pickens, who is chairman of Texas-based Mesa Petroleum, has already bought 13% of Unocal, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company. The Pickens group is now seeking to acquire a majority of the company's stock by offering to purchase it at $54 a share. But Unocal has countered with a new variation of what Wall Street calls...
DIED. Ewen Montagu, 84, British lawyer and judge who in 1943 as a Royal Navy lieutenant commander led the counterespionage team that created "the man who never was," one of the major intelligence hoaxes of the war; in London. The ploy, recounted in Montagu's 1953 book (later a movie), involved a body that washed up on the coast of Spain outfitted in a Royal Marines uniform and with papers indicating that the next Allied thrust would come in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily. The German high command fell for the ruse, and the beaches of Sicily were only lightly...
...always denied. Then 30 former Saddam Hussein henchmen were mysteriously arrested by Iraq. After the group proved to include Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti, a half-brother of Saddam's who was once a widely feared internal-security chief, Syria said it knew nothing about their capture. The ploy was supposed to buy some time, appeasing Washington without losing crucial support from hard-liners in his own Baath Party who oppose cooperation with the West. By the time Assad flew to Riyadh on Thursday, he had run out of allies. Backed by Egypt, Crown Prince Abdullah read Assad...