The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep. Chandrika Kumaratunga Sex. It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common.