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...Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere said, "Our boundaries are so absurd that they must be regarded as sacrosanct." By the same token, the O.A.U. has also condemned secessionist movements. Only four member nations recognized Biafra; two of them, Tanzania and Zambia, did so only as an unsuccessful ploy to facilitate a negotiated settlement of the conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Africa's Divided House | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...deft ploy to enlist Soviet support for negotiations, Brandt said that West German participation in the Soviet-sponsored European security conference would depend on progress toward the solution of Germany's internal problems. Brandt is well aware that the security conference, which Moscow wants to convene either late this year or early in 1971 to ratify Europe's existing borders, is a major goal of Soviet diplomacy. The Kremlin is so eager to hold the conference that Soviet officials said publicly last week that they would welcome American attendance. Previously, they had been lukewarm toward the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: No Wanderer | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Needling the North. The Administration belatedly switched signals to avoid the embarrassment of backing a segregationist ploy already ruled unconstitutional. HEW civil rights lawyers pointed out that if the original Whitten amendment passed, the Administration would have little choice but to denounce it as such, or to institute a quick court test to underline the point. Either way, the Administration would have been forced into taking direct actions repugnant to the South, countermanding the Congress and endangering future HEW appropriations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Setbacks for Segregationists | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Wood charged that the University's labelling of the students "peace breakers," was, "a trick, a ruse, a ploy that has always been used against those who bring the bad news." OBU's actions at Harvard have been "good news to the black community." Wood said, and "Harvard's response to our legitimate demands is unexpected pad news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBU Actions Backed By Floyd McKissick In Mem Church Rally | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

...fact, however, this is a non-event, a propaganda ploy. But that doesn't motter, because our hero is a non-reporter, a spy hypnotically trained to kill the scientists...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Sci-fiLight Years Away | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

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