Word: pretexting
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...same day, Hussein achieved another victory against "outside influences." The first of some 4,000 Syrian troops, installed in Jordan since last November on a pretext of "protecting Jordan from Israeli attack," began pulling out of Mafrak and Irbid. The Syrian soldiers, usually seen strolling in the public squares unshaven, holding hands and eating ice cream, are not highly esteemed as fighting men. They are sloppy and undisciplined, and their presence had always been much more of a threat to Jordan than to Israel. The troops' departure was speeded by Hussein's influential new ally, King Saud...
...would seem fair to assume that no story or poem in which the reader does not know in some sense "what is happening" will appeal to that reader. Using this critical pretext, I can perhaps explain my intestinal reactions to the March edition of The Advocate, reactions which are on the whole negative...
...faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful danger there would be for us in losing sight, under the fallacious pretext of immediate efficacy, of the moral values that alone, until now, have been the grandeur of our civilization and of our army...
Died. Constantine Brancusi, 81, famed, bearded Rumanian sculptor whose polished bronze propeller-blade-like Bird in Space stirred a noisy controversy in 1926 when U.S. Customs officials tried to tax him for importing huge hunks of bronze "under the pretext of art"; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...desperation are part of a deliberately conceived Russian policy not very different from that of the Czars. Through 400 years the great powers surrounding Poland, seeking to exploit its estates and mines, have sought to crush Polish independence. From Russia's Ivan the Terrible, who invaded under the pretext of "gathering in of the Russian lands," to Sweden's Charles XII, whose declared Polish policy was "burn, destroy, rob and arrest," the invaders, as though fearing Poland's unquenchable spirit, have sought a "final solution...