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...goes up: "Let's go down below," or "Let's bug out to T.J." Soon battalions of fuzzy-faced young servicemen are headed across the Mexican border, where the horses run more often, the booze flows freer, and the ladies take off their clothes at the slightest pretext. Since World War II, when...
Penciled Mustache. The conspirators enlisted Iran's volatile students, who were already excited by a crisis of their own: the sacking of five secondary-school students on the official pretext that they had penciled whiskers on a picture of the Shah. (In fact, secret police said they were ringleaders of an outlawed Communist Party cell.) In Teheran and Shiraz, tough, rock-hurling students touched off the fiercest street fighting since 1952, when an earlier coalition of extremes maintained weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in power...
...resolution passed by the General Assembly in December 1960, which stated that "inadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence," showed a "total lack of responsibility." After all, he said, "everyone has seen the chaos in the Congo...
Victor D. Oppenheimer, president and Director of Mount Auburn Inc., claims that fire officials tried "to find a pretext to close the club." He made the charge in a statement to the Massachusetts Attorney General...
Lumumba's inability to cope with the raping and looting turmoil that immediately followed independence gave Tshombe the excuse he needed. On July 11, 1960, Katanga seceded on the pretext that it was the only way to prevent the disorders from spreading into" the province. Ever since, both the U.N. and the central government have tried to get Katanga back under the wing of Leopoldville. At the Coquilhatville Conference last April, Tshombe was put under house arrest, kept until he agreed to join the central parliament. But back home in Katanga, he reneged on his agreement. Tshombe continually defied...