1.   Beyond that, the U.S. deployment here seems little more than a propaganda ploy, saying less about terrorism than about politics in Manila and Washington.

2.   A few doubted the veracity of the video, calling its release a propaganda ploy by the U.S. government.

3.   McCain knew it was a propaganda ploy.

4.   Palestinians say that the Israeli ceasefire is a propaganda ploy and that the army never stopped shooting.

5.   Other Arab states and the Palestine Liberation Organization have condemned the deportations as a propaganda ploy.

6.   A government official implied Wednesday Turkey may deny entry to a train carrying human rights activists, accusing the initiative of being a propaganda ploy by Kurdish rebels.

7.   Ahmed Tibi, an aide to PLO chief Yasser Arafat, on Wednesday dismissed the events as an Israeli propaganda ploy.

8.   Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev dismissed it as a propaganda ploy and urged Moscow to withdraw its troops from the tiny republic in southern Russia.

9.   Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev dismissed it as a propaganda ploy.

10.   Doubts persist, however, as to whether the Khmer Rouge has truly repudiated Pol Pot, or whether Pol Pot staged the trial himself as a propaganda ploy.