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...still further by suggesting that the U.S. would send an unarmed cargo ship to resupply the embassy in Kuwait City, where 27 diplomats are reportedly down to their last month's worth of canned tuna and rice. If Iraq tried to interfere with the mission, that might provide a pretext for massive military retaliation. Saddam's reaction was to put his commanders on "extreme alert" in order to "thwart the perfidious intentions of the United States and its allies to launch an attack in the coming few days...
...uprising in the occupied territories. Although Palestinians could not have anticipated how deadly the Israeli reaction would be, and it remains unclear just who attacked first, evidence strongly suggests that they were looking for a fight. The Temple Mount Faithful, which never entered the site, offered the perfect pretext to mobilize the masses, while the Jewish holiday provided a headline-grabbing backdrop for a demonstration...
...newly united Germany. At the same time, however, Thatcher brought with her a philosophical challenge to the wider project, that of creating a common currency and central bank. Said European Commission President Jacques Delors: "Only the future will tell us if British entry into the EMS is not a pretext to slow down the process of integration." As a full-fledged EMS member, Thatcher is bound to sharpen the debate about the larger choices facing...
...charge that Jews want to retake the Temple Mount from its current Muslim caretakers in order to build a third temple is not new. Monday's events bear an uncanny resemblance to the events of 1939, when Arabs used the same pretext for conducting pogroms in the course of which many Jews were murdered...
...kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying to organize phony reformist rallies Oct. 6 and 7, at which they would stage violent incidents that would serve as a pretext for a coup...