Word: smokescreening
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...weak effort to prosecute non-registrants and the sheer lack of any coherent plan for doing so has been a lesson in bureaucratic mismanagement. But much worse has been the smokescreen of misleading actions the government has thrown up throughout the last year to mask this failure. Instead of being honest with the public and admitting that their efforts to prosecute non-registrants have been absolutely ineffective, officials have insisted at every point that their capability to enforce the law was greater than it is. The Selective Service and Justice Department have been bluffing with a weak hand, the kind...
...billion, Mexico does not see itself as the final battleground if the U.S. does not draw the line against Marxist advances elsewhere in the region. They resent the implication that they too are a banana republic, and suspect that talk of Mexico as the ultimate domino is only a smokescreen. As Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME in an interview last week, "I do not think the main purpose of U.S. Central American policy is to protect Mexico. The U.S. has a different perspective related to what some people in the Administration regard as a vital strategic and political...
...what has become clear is that the 1978 policy was, if not a smokescreen then certainly a much less than candid appraisal of the course the Corporation was to follow. The Corporation evidently sees to South Africa policy not to much as a rigorous set of guidelines in both meaning and spirit but as something to be gotten around. Something that has to be dealt with, not because it really ought to be dealt with, but because students and some other crazy adults get upset about it. Calkins' statement was merely the last indicator of how little tooth the governing...
...plan to raise $30 billion in new revenues, perhaps by limiting the 10% income tax rate cut due to take effect in July, and to restore funds that have been cut from such domestic programs as child nutrition, food stamps and social services. "We know that behind the smokescreen of voodoo economics is the real need to make tough choices," said O'Neill in announcing the Democrats' version of the budget...
Manley sharply criticized Reagan's Carib bean Basin Initiative plan, calling it a "smokescreen" through which the U S appeared to be giving more aid to its neighboring countries when actually total aid had decreased due to drops in U S contributions to multilateral agencies such as the International Development Association...