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When American troops entered Italy during World War II, they found the economy in dire straits. The resilient Italians survived by selling black-market goods to one another. Americans will soon be playing a variation on the Italian ploy. They will survive by serving hamburgers and doughnuts to one another. Frank Holan Westminster...
...Robert McFarlane said that the U.S. would also insist on discussing ways to reopen the dual talks on Strategic Arms Reduction (START) and Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), which the Soviets abandoned late last year after NATO began deploying U.S. missiles in Europe. Although this was partly a political ploy, it made sense. Satellites are part of each nation's nuclear capability. Antisatellite weapons or space-based missile defenses would affect the nuclear balance, and it is difficult to discuss one part of the equation while ignoring the other...
...whom had been charged by the Cubans with drug trafficking or drug possession. But after they stepped from their plane at Dulles International Airport near Washington, a cheering throng of friends and relatives greeted them with tears of joy that transcended the politics of Jackson's ploy. Said William Snyder, a paper-mill foreman in Calhoun, Tenn., and father of freed Prisoner Alan Snyder, 24: "The Reagan Administration may be more or less disappointed, but I am tickled to death...
...outer space" and begin negotiating a ban on weapons that could destroy satellites. Before Shultz could discuss the matter with President Reagan at a prearranged meeting at the White House, the Soviet news agency TASS began releasing the proposal to the world. Whether or not the offer was a ploy, its publication forced the Administration to produce an immediate response. Said one official: "If we rejected the move, or said we would study it, they would have scored a propaganda coup...
...Robert Williams was convicted of murdering Pamela Powers, 10, in Iowa. That conviction was appealed to the Supreme Court and was thrown out in 1977 because of a famous illegal police interrogation-the "Christian burial" ploy...