Word: pretexting
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...only one clearly enjoying himself is Director Lester, who has unabashedly used the story as a pretext to gleek, glom and glare at the Frisco scene with his cameras. "My apartment's only four blocks from here," says the doctor. He and Petulia go to a super de luxe motel instead, allowing Lester to display the automated checkin, the key that lights up when you reach your door, and the vibrating double bed. When a pal wants to have a serious talk with Scott about his marital problems, they go to lunch at a topless restaurant so that...
Loss of Image. As Kiesinger realizes, the rise of the rightists, who have in the past 18 months won 60 seats in state parliaments, has already done serious harm to West Germany. The Soviet Union uses the specter of a new Hitler as a pretext for blocking West Germany's attempts to bring about a reconciliation with the East bloc. Walter Ulbricht's East German regime has cited the Nazi danger as an excuse for tampering with Allied guarantees of access to West Berlin. At home, though the National Democrats poll only a relatively small percentage of votes...
...pretext of blaming "Zionist elements" for whipping up the unrest, Gomulka's regime intensified a campaign of anti-Semitism that began last summer, when Poland's highly placed Jewish minority balked at siding with the Arabs against Israel. Since then, the Jews' life has been increasingly uncomfortable. Last week the regime conspicuously made public the names of Jewish students arrested during the riots and decided, moreover, to visit the sins of the sons upon the fathers. It fired at least three top officials for their sons' complicity in the riots. In a nation that has often...
...welcome excuse for launching bombers over North Viet Nam. Whatever the strategic merits of attacking the North at the time-and many in the U.S. military thought them considerable-it might have been wiser to state the case frankly rather than rest it on a vulnerable pretext...
...NATO domain, of the 50-ship U.S. Sixth Fleet. Now 45 to 55 Soviet ships, including missile-firing destroyers, plus a dozen submarines, patrol the Mediterranean. The Russians supply their ships at sea, sometimes drop into Alexandria, Port Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants of the French navy pull out next year. Sometimes the Soviet ships come so close...