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...opening negotiating ploy? Soothing words intended for domestic consumption? Or the final word on the politically sensitive subject of Japan's self-imposed lid on U.S. auto imports of 1.76 million vehicles annually? Japan's unilateral promise, which is now in its third year, expires at the end of March 1984. Japan agreed to the restriction only under pressure; now that car sales for Detroit are picking up (12.6% ahead of a year ago), it was expected to resist another extension of the agreement. At a Tokyo breakfast meeting last week with Japanese industrial leaders, Sosuke...
...Pope's arrival, underground union activists had pulled off a daring propaganda ploy. At about 7:30 p.m., Radio Solidarity suddenly broke into officially controlled air waves to broadcast an old recording of John Paul praising the ideals of the banned union. Before the clandestine program could be drowned out, Polish listeners heard a message for the Pope from Zbigniew Bujak, who, as the fugitive former leader of Warsaw's Solidarity branch, is high on the government's "most wanted" list. Said Bujak: "We welcome you amid the continuing struggle for our union's rights...
Andropov, however, was eager to encourage speculation that the Soviets are not prepared to let the Geneva talks stagnate. Says U.S. Arms Control Expert William Hyland: "Andropov has given the negotiators some room to move about." The latest Soviet offer, indeed, was an effective ploy in a game in which each superpower wants to be the last to make an offer, not the last to issue a rejection. -ByRussHoyle. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Strobe Talbott/Washington
...Melrod-penned Shakespearean soap opera called "Most Grievous Hospital," which is rendered in Elizabethan rhyming couplets from the introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy--regular General Hospital fare--("Oh, woe, that I should unaraesthetized bear such pain") and through to the end ("...and o'er the martinis that our good pay makes possible, We'll mourn the sorry state of this... most grievous hospital."). It's hardly Hamlet...
...gist of it is that all these investors in the inflated property can pay their share largely with loans, which are later forgotten, and then the total investment can be deducted from the investors' income. The IRS has so far found 5,200 returns that used this ploy during 1979-81, to the tune of $60 million in unpaid taxes...