Word: ploy
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...timing is actually just a ploy to keep us away from Augusta, "Senior Will Curry cracks...
...four-part peace plan calling for dividing the Balkan country into 10 semiautonomous regions. On Friday General Ratko Mladic, the commander of Bosnia's Serbs, agreed to a cease-fire early this week. Whether that amounted to a real military pause just short of the goal -- or a ploy -- remained to be seen...
Serbs often offer safe passage out of areas they are attacking, but Bosnian and U.N. officials regard the ploy as part of the Serb campaign to rid the area of non-Serbs. Serb officials seemed to confirm that with a statement that Muslims and Serbs "will not live together ever again." In spite of the U.N.'s reluctance to assist in the "cleansing," General Philippe Morillon, head of the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, went to Cerska on Friday to try, apparently unsuccessfully, to negotiate an evacuation...
...Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali eventually endorsed the plan, but some members of the Security Council continued to fret privately about the wisdom of the airlift. European allies suspected Clinton's initiative might have resulted from the need to be seen as doing something more active -- a public relations ploy designed to display American leadership. But the airlift also signaled a degree of U.S. engagement that the Europeans have encouraged...
...week Escobar fired back, announcing that he would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat as an attempt by Escobar to portray himself as a political -- rather than a criminal -- outlaw, another ploy to cut a deal. The continued standoff is leading to a new wave of violence. Late last week two car bombs exploded in Bogota, injuring about 20 people. Police are blaming Escobar and say it's a warning that things will get worse...