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Most Maryland bankers strongly opposed the legislation because Citicorp (assets: $151 billion) is more than seven times as big as all of Maryland's 89 banks combined. But Governor Harry Hughes promoted the move as an economic stimulant, a tactic that Citicorp hopes will appeal to other states...
WASHINGTON Post columnist Joseph Kraft charged Khomeini in a 1983 editorial with "the tactic of hiding destructive national policies in the cloak of religiosity"--thereby getting in the nifty extra dig that Khomeini is insincere...
...Union is the military. To get around the trade restrictions, the Soviets have relied on espionage. Through bribery and theft, clandestine armies of agents have obtained thousands of classified documents giving technical specifications for Western computers. Whenever possible, the Soviets have gone after the machines themselves. A favorite Soviet tactic is to set up bogus companies in Western Europe to buy computers and then smuggle them to Moscow. In recent years, the U.S. Government has seized several powerful machines that were being illegally shipped to the Soviet Union, including Digital Equipment's VAX and PDP 11/44 minicomputers...
...family have been moved south by the government in an effort to isolate an estimated 8,000 U.S.-supported contra rebels roaming through Nicaragua's five northern provinces. Villages are being emptied--some destroyed--in an operation that President Reagan, with considerable exaggeration, last week described as "Stalin's tactic of Gulag relocation...
...cuts as long as U.S. security is not threatened. The Administration is hoping to force Congress to slash specific programs rather than impose a percentage reduction in military outlays; that way, the lawmakers would face political heat for trimming back weapons systems that produce jobs back home. But the tactic could backfire: one choice target for congressional budget cutters is Reagan's beloved Star Wars program, for which he has requested $3.7 billion next year...