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Berlinguer is backed up by a smooth-running, well-financed political organization. Already, in the current campaign, the P.C.I, has grabbed the initiative. The Communists were first out with a platform and a list of candidates, including six well-known Catholic laymen (TIME, May 31), a ploy that stunned the Vatican. For voters who care, there is a 63-page pamphlet explaining Berlinguer's call for a multiparty government of "democratic unity." The Communists have also produced leaflets and filmstrips on specialized subjects ranging from women's rights to the plight of Italian fishermen...
...April unless they got $3 million in ransom. Campbell finally reached Khartoum late in the month accompanied by two British journalists, who had befriended Steve in captivity, while covering the rebels. The newsmen brought along a documentary film they had made on the Eritreans. Campbell's bargaining ploy was a promise of publicity for the rebels in the U.S. The journalists showed the film to the guerrillas, and apparently they were impressed...
...word seeped out that the Justice Department might intervene on behalf of antibusing forces in an appeal against a court-imposed plan for Boston's schools. Since both Michigan and; Kentucky have been wracked by violent busing disputes, the disclosure had every earmark of a political ploy to benefit Candidate Gerald Ford...
...reject the NSF suggestion that American science is on the skids. "The U.S. is still the most productive nation in the world," said Nobel-prize winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more money...
...health codes until next year. Reason: the Administration insisted that it file statements on the potential inflationary impact of its proposed codes. Such statements can run hundreds of pages and cost up to $100,000 each. OSHA'S supporters see the requirement for the statements as an Administration ploy to postpone until after the election regulations that would be costly to Big Business. Labor Secretary W.J. Usery, whose department includes OSHA, denies that the delay is politically motivated...