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...Mexicans the Simpson-Mazzoli proposal represent Rep. Roybal's bill may be less ambitious than Simpson-Mazzoli, but it is more feasible. Unlike Simpson-Mazzoli it does not count on employers and undocumented workers to come forward of their own accord. Rather than view this bill as an obstructionist ploy by a Hispanic congressman--as one senator referred to it--Congress and the President must address the issues it raises in legislation. Immigration reform should constitute more than a political football; its complexity makes quick congressional action impossible...
...within the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which helps finance financial aid. The more that students give to the scholarship funds, the less of the "general fund" Harvard has to divert there to meet that year's need. Practically, offering the "scholarship fund" is a meaningless ploy...
...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...
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...