In suddenly resigning as Russian president on Friday, Boris Yeltsin showed once again why he will be remembered as a practitioner of the unexpected political stratagem.

His stage-setting narrative is a conventional one: Hitler cements his hold on Germany through a combination of rhetoric, political stratagems, and force.

Their fresh hopes - and budding new political stratagems - arrive after five years of economic fear in which Local 1190 has weathered two bankruptcies, three work stoppages and three pay cuts in the struggle to keep Wheeling-Pittsburgh alive.

They see in that letter, and much similar evidence, less an oath of allegiance to the Union than a political stratagem addressed to that antiblack majority of Northerners without whose support slavery could not be abolished.

For the first time, all of Bill Clinton's great escapes and semantic dodges and political stratagems were failing him.

This young man seems to me too profound, too calm in his political stratagems, too independent in his vast resolutions, in his colossal enterprises, for me to believe him solely occupied by his tenderness.

In the absence of a military option, it appears the Government continues to pin its hopes on some miraculous political stratagem that will lead to a reduction of sanctions without forcing the resignation of the leadership here.

Some say it's part of a political stratagem designed to decrease the political clout of these Democratic strongholds.

Putting me in command was a political stratagem of Lord Gunthar's - we both know that.

Mr. Aziz, who is visiting Spain, charged in a Madrid interview today that the disclosure of the analysis was a "political stratagem" to poison the atmosphere before the Security Council reviews the sanctions issue.