Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruse was such a ham-handed throwback, so lacking in the artful subtlety that the new Kremlin leadership is supposed to prize so highly, that analysts were stunned. One week earlier the FBI in New York City had arrested Gennadi Zakharov, a Soviet citizen employed at the U.N., after he had bought an envelope filled with U.S. military secrets. Since Zakharov did not have diplomatic immunity, a federal judge ordered him held without bail. The subsequent arrest and jailing of Daniloff offered the Soviets both a bargaining chip and a choreographed symmetry. Or at least so it seemed to them...
...agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies and shoot-outs...
Using falsified "disinformation" to mislead adversaries is a patented Soviet ruse. Last week there were suggestions that the Pentagon may be playing the same game. Aviation Week magazine reported that for more than two years the Defense Department has deliberately misrepresented publicly available performance standards and other technical data on several key projects. Among them: high- speed microchips, low-visibility Stealth aircraft technology, and perhaps the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, project. While the program's goal is to confuse Soviet weapons planners, the U.S. public and Congress are also being deceived. Four U.S. Senators have asked the Senate...
When the jury found him guilty, Chin showed no emotion. But that too, it seems, was just another ruse. Last week in a Virginia county jail, where he was being held pending a March 17 sentencing, Larry Chin committed suicide. Police say Chin appeared fine when guards brought breakfast to his cell. But later in the morning, they found the inmate lying unconscious with a plastic bag wrapped around his head. Efforts to revive him failed...
Even as local officers issued polite messages to news organizations requesting that "journalists please refrain from entering Alexandra township," police and army forces were throwing up an impenetrable cordon around Alexandra. Several journalists climbed to hills overlooking the township to monitor and film the violence. The ruse, however, only provoked the authorities, who quickly issued new regulations banning reporters and photographers not only from Alexandra but from all surrounding areas...