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This incident "was nothing but a ploy to anger the liberal community," says SASC member Evan O. Grossman '87-88, who currently works for a Massachusetts Democrat. "I think most members of the liberal wing would argue that Kashani is a grandstander. They view him as someone who likes to be annoying...
Undaunted, Nakasone's planners came up with a last-ditch ploy: to call the lower house of parliament into special session to debate relief measures for the yen. By preventing parliament from recessing, the Prime Minister could exercise his power to dissolve the lower house and call elections. If that happens, political observers give Nakasone a good chance of revising the party's restrictive rule. "It is a document that is easy to change," said an L.D.P. official. If Nakasone fails in his bid for new elections, however, his chances for another term are slim indeed...
...these reports are true, Botha's ploy can be said to have worked. In Lusaka, the exiled A.N.C. leader Oliver Tambo, who has been running the organization ever since his friend Mandela went to prison in the early 1960s, called on South African blacks to give their full support to a national strike on June 16, the tenth anniversary of the uprising in Soweto. Declared Tambo: "Let every university and school be emptied of its youth. Let every mine, factory, farm and white home be without labor. Let every shop close its doors." With emotions running so high on both...
Many of those who continue to travel to Europe, however, now adopt elaborate precautions. One ploy is to fly into airports at cities such as Milan, Brussels or Amsterdam, which are considered relatively safe from terrorist attack, then drive or take trains to such final destinations as Rome or Paris. Tourists can further reduce risk by traveling on direct flights between the U.S. and their final destination, rather than changing planes at overseas airports, and by avoiding routes that originate in unstable parts of the world like the Middle East. While in airports, travelers are advised to stay clear...
Tenants said the name of the camera shop was replaced yesterday with the name of the store's owner and charged that the move is a Harvard ploy to conceal the misuse of its property...