Word: ployes
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...read from a letter he had written to the Soviet President while recuperating in the hospital from the assassination attempt: "Mr. President, should we not be concerned with eliminating the obstacles which prevent our people-those you and I represent-from achieving their most cherished goals?" Responding to ploy with gambit, the Soviet embassy in Washington released Brezhnev's letter of reply from last May. "We do not seek confrontation with the U.S.," the Soviet leader wrote, and once again he urged a summit at "a moment acceptable to both...
...trifle disingenuous. Certainly it is not simple. The Soviets will surely insist that the negotiations address items that Reagan did not mention: warheads on NATO bombers, missiles aboard submarines in the North Atlantic, the arsenals of Britain and France. Some, in fact, saw it simply as a ploy to reassure NATO allies and thus help secure the controversial deployment of the very same missiles that he was offering to scrap...
...earnest, each side will continue to try to score points with the European audience that is caught precariously in the balance. But Reagan's initiative deserves to be taken by the Soviets, as well as by the U.S. and the Europeans, as more than a public relations ploy. If treated seriously by both sides, it could indeed be, as he suggested, a "giant step" toward peace. The dream it embodies, the hope it nourishes, is shared by not only the Western Europeans but by the Soviet and American people as well: to reduce the world's awesome arsenals...
...That ploy was designed to force Republican Senators to cast embarrassing no votes. The struggle seemed likely to be ended less by any hard-fought compromise of deeply held principles than by a weary desire on the part of both Congress and the President to get out of Washington for a Thanksgiving holiday...
...Mickey Finn ploy? Yes, but the visitor had fallen victim to a new and dangerous twist. In the past two years, New York hustlers have drugged scores of affluent-looking men (and a few women) not with the usual chloral hydrate-a sedative that simply makes a person drunk more quickly-but with scopolamine. This nervous-system depressant is normally used as a preoperative drug. It is also an ingredient in some prescription eye drops...