Words.

This is coolbert:

During the Cold War, a clever game of "play with words" was part of the "great game" that went on between the Soviet Union and the United States. Quite often, this play of words was used to satisfy the sensibilities of parties involved in fighting or in potential conflicts stemming from treaty interpretations.

On such utterance typical of the "play with words" was the pronouncement by President Reagan that there, "were not U.S. ground combat units in El Salvador". And this was true. There were not ground combat units in El Salvador. But in the sky, there were plenty. An AC-130 gunship aloft at 8,000 feet, on-call to provide fire support on guerilla units, with an RC-135 aircraft at 30,000 feet to provide command, control, communications, and intelligence [C cubed I]. This AC-130 played a devastating role in the conflict between the warring parties in the El Salvador Civil War, causing such large casualties to the guerrillas that the insurgents became compelled to enter into negotiations that developed into a cease fire and a cessation of hostilities.

Another "play with words" was the statement that no nuclear weapons the U.S. possessed were stored on Japanese soil. The treaty the U.S. had with Japan had a proviso that no nuclear weapons were to be stored on Japanese soil. The proviso was very important for domestic Japanese considerations. And in all probability, no nuclear weapons were stored on Japanese soil. But out in the harbor, where there were U.S. aircraft carriers such as the Midway, I bet there were plenty of nuclear weapons. NONE ON JAPANESE SOIL, but plenty in the harbor on U.S. ships. This at least, is my interpretation of this "play with words".

coolbert.