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...countries to assent to the American view: such a meeting can occur only after a basic groundwork has been laid at lower levels, and will be contingent on Soviet actions in Afghanistan and during the Polish crisis. The Moscow "peace offensive" is seen by Washington as primarily a propaganda ploy. But Haig agreed at week's end to hold low-level talks promptly with the Soviets...
According to some Poland watchers, the anti-Semitic ploy may have originated in the middle ranks of the Communist Party and the government's security organization. Said one Eastern Europe expert: "Given the ease with which the group organized the rally and distributed leaflets, it is evident that the people behind the new movement are close to the police and power apparatus." One Bonn Foreign Ministry official, however, suspected a more elevated figure: "Mieczyslaw Moczar is back in the power structure. This could be his work...
Every election year, with surprising regularity, the "Soviet threat" is evoked and America's military capabilities are denigrated. This is a political ploy used alternately by Republican challenger to discredit the defense policies of a Democratic incumbent, or by a Democratic challenger trying to appeal to more traditionally-Republican constituencies...
...Good Ploy...
Collins called the letter "a good public relations ploy" and said he feels he is "being put in a position where I can no longer work in good faith--because we're no longer getting what we were promised...