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By setting up a team of your friends, going into game as a team, you can then only hear your teammates whilst playing the game. Obviously you get everyone else through the menus.
A lot of modes in MW2 don't let you do party chat and force you to switch to game chat and hear everybody, no way round it I don't think apart from muting everyone you don't know.