Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ironically, by dusting off an agricultural plan developed for the short-lived interim government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. That program, which involved some 11 million acres of undeveloped or abandoned white farm land, would cost $165 million. The biracial Muzorewa regime never found financial backing for the resettlement scheme, a failing that contributed to its crushing electoral defeat last month. But Mugabe's government has already sought pledges of substantial aid from the U.S., Britain, Scandinavia and Western Europe-but not from the Soviet bloc. Foreign assistance will be sorely needed: estimates for rebuilding the war-torn nation...
...plan was an ingenious way of releasing some prisoners without formally capitulating to the terrorists' demands or, technically at least, violating the Colombian constitution. The compromise scheme, drawn up by President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala after his ruling Liberal Party made a strong showing (54% of the vote) in nationwide municipal elections early last week, had been intended as a concession that could lead the way out of the deadlock. In fact, the government had already named a blue-ribbon panel of nine civilian jurists to oversee the legal procedures. The terrorists' rebuff thus came as a severe...
...pieced together by investigators, the Liverpool scheme was elaborately simple. A mysterious Swiss businessman named Jean Cottet used a Panamanian firm to buy and ship bulk consignments of cheap French table wine to a few select bottling firms in The Netherlands. There it was put into unlabeled bottles and pro vided with a forged set of papers attesting to the fact that it came from a respected wine-growing area entitled to a French government Appellation Contrôleé certifi cate. Thence to England, where the high-priced labels were put on by Eutron before the wine was dispatched...
Ringmasters of the Liverpool scheme were two Dutch businessmen, a Leiden wine retailer and the head of a bottling firm in Lisse. The Lisse company, investigators learned, also did business with an other Dutch wine dealer named Bernard Kahn. Authorities believe Kahn was running his own, higher-class fraud...
...scheme for cheap...