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Concocting the flimsiest of excuses for an invasion, the Iraqis announced that they had entered the country at the invitation of the Free Interim Government, which had supposedly seized control of the country from the Emir. This previously unknown organization was said to be made up of "young revolutionaries." But no one bought the tale. "Instead of staging a coup d'etat before the invasion, they got it the wrong way around," said Thomas Pickering, Washington's U.N. ambassador...
...decades have been. Also turbulent, irritating, at times humiliating and occasionally frightening. As one of a handful of prominent Prague intellectuals who chose neither to flee nor to fall silent but to fight back, Havel was jailed three times for a total of almost five years on the flimsiest of charges. One four-month stretch was served in a cell 12 ft. by 7 ft., which he shared with a burglar. A second imprisonment ended when he nearly died of pneumonia that was neglected, perhaps deliberately, by prison doctors. His last internment, four months of a scheduled eight...
...drug thugs indicted by American prosecutors without getting a judge's signature on the order. That end-runs one of the biggest barriers to punishment of the gangsters: an intimidated Colombian Supreme Court in 1987 declared a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty invalid on the flimsiest of technicalities. Both Washington and Bogota officials declare that the drug lords fear extradition more than anything else because they cannot terrorize judges and juries in the U.S. as readily as they can those in Colombia. The gangsters agree. Their communiques have been issued in the name of a group that calls itself, with defiant...
They are not. Publicly, Israeli officials are noncommittal. "Privately," concedes a senior Israeli army commander, "we are apoplectic. Acknowledging that moderate Palestinians actually exist in the middle of the intifadeh and that they are unafraid to meet Israelis when they know we can jail them on the flimsiest of pretexts means it might really be possible to achieve a peaceful solution -- which is exactly what Shamir is against. To him, calm talk can lead only to the thing he fears most, a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
...take the flimsiest idea, and fortify it with talk to turn it into saleable things. Like Reagan--he has flimsy philosophical ideas, but how he sells them is masterful," Tom says in a soft voice. He apologizes often for not being able to pin down the phrases that he wants; his words like his paintings more representational than realistic...