Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huivenaar's job to find Westerners who were willing, for the sake of money or sympathy, to let their documents be used in the scheme. In a typical operation, Huivenaar would promise a dupe in the West about $200 for falling in with his plans, then convoy him to a Communist capital such as War saw, Budapest or East Berlin. There the passport would be handed over to an accomplice. Photos would be substituted on it, and it would then be delivered to the prospective escapee...
...captured American diplomat. The raid never materialized, but the war was won anyway and the plotter went on to triumphs in other fields. He was John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States, who in 1781, as a 35-year-old emissary to Spain, hatched the kidnaping scheme in a letter to a friend in France. Jay's daring plan remained virtually unknown for nearly two centuries until the letter was placed on exhibit at the John Jay Homestead in Katonah...
...retaliation, the Americans toyed with the notion of sneaking into the sable grounds of Russia's Baikal region and doing a bit of poaching. They even went so far as to pick a leader for the expedition: a much-decorated Army lieutenant colonel named Carl Piampiano. The harebrained scheme never materialized, but Piampiano was by then intrigued with the mink business and bought himself a ranch in Zion...
THERE IS, however, one glaring omission in the report's otherwise-tight scheme. The crucial question of student participation in staff selection for the new department has been scrupulously evaded in the report itself, and Dean Ford apparently hopes to guide the report through the Faculty without saying anything too specific about how much voice black students will have in choosing--or rejecting--potential appointees. Informal agreements for "student consultations" have reportedly been arranged, but Ford owes it to the Faculty and to the students to make his position clear here. He should either present a convincing case for excluding...
...would remain, but the really poverty-stricken would disappear. The worst deprivation would be done away with. It would not be cheap?as much as $30 billion a year (as against the present total welfare bill to federal, state and city governments of $5.5 billion). The proponents of the scheme argue convincingly, however, that the cost of the negative income tax would gradually decline as growing numbers of people escaped the poverty class...