Word: smokescreening
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Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may be too celebrated to imprison, but there are other ways for the Kremlin to harass rebellion. The Soviets have just thrown a smokescreen over Solzhenitsyn's novel, August, 1914, by publishing 100,000 copies of Barbara Tuchman's 1962 history of the same period, The Guns of August. (Mrs. Tuchman, who was neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife...
This argument for "constructive action" is a smokescreen. For the "constructive action" that the Corporation says it is considering consists only of palliatives like hiring and promotional policies. While there may be controversy over the financial and strategic merits of divestiture, the issue of colonialism is clear. Gulf must be condemned for its complicity in the Portuguese colonial state...
...Prime Minister Indira Gandhi led President Nixon to believe that her country had no intention of going to war. Later, when the Indian army made what appeared to be a well-planned attack on East Pakistan, Washington officials concluded that Mrs. Gandhi's trip had been a smokescreen for massive war preparations. Richard Nixon was furious, and was behind the initial Government statements branding India the aggressor...
...Carswell were privately contemptuous. As the uproar continued, it became clear that even most of the White House staff regarded the choices as a disaster. John Mitchell held a background briefing for reporters in his office. Actually, he said, 15 names were under consideration. But that was a smokescreen. The fact was that Nixon meant to nominate Herschel Friday and Mildred Lillie...