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...violated this standard throughout the trial. St. Clair deliberately and subtly appealed to the prejudices--cultural and racist--of the jury. In his opening statement, St. Clair specified cultural assimilation, especially Indian intermarriage with blacks and whites, as one example of the Indians' failure to comprise a tribe. The ploy was an insidious one--St. Clair skillfully appealed to whatever prejudices the jury may have entertained against blacks or against intermarriage between races...
...ploy worked, and talk-show fans began perceiving Reynolds as "a man smarter than the roles he played." Soon Johnny Carson started asking Reynolds to fill in as host of the Tonight Show. Even the infamous nude centerfold photo in Cosmo was intended as a put-on, a satirical thrust at the whole institution of centerfolds and a self-parody of his own growing macho image. That gambit may have worked a little too well. The magazine hit the stands just as Reynolds' first really good picture, Deliverance, hit the screen, and some of his friends think the gatefold...
Barnes ran a highly diversified operation. In addition to gas stations and travel agencies in the New York area, he held investments in two federally insured housing projects in Detroit and Cleveland. The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn mobster "Crazy Joey" Gallo when they were in prison together in 1965. (Barnes served five years on a narcotics conviction, which was overturned on appeal...
...Senator Magnuson does not go that far, but he has succeeded in getting a measure passed in Congress and signed by President Carter that in effect prevents supertankers from going to Cherry Point. For the time being, at least, Ray has no plans to try to thwart Magnuson's ploy, but the issue of just how oil will be transported through Washington State is far from settled...
...confused. For example, Sadat told U.S. Ambassador in Cairo Hermann Eilts in a general way about his plans for a pre-Geneva conference to help clear up procedural problems. Eilts urgently passed the message to Washington. But before Carter and his policy advisers had a chance to assess the ploy and reply, Eilts learned that Sadat was planning to propose such a conference in a speech to Egypt's national assembly. A message was dispatched to Egypt asking Sadat to hold off announcing the summit until the U.S. could sound out other Arab states and the Soviet Union...