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...deans confuse the issue. They’re using this as a false pretext to shut down the demonstration and violate the free speech of students,” Gould-Wartofsky said...
...Lebanese civil war - which also mandates Syrian withdrawal, but does not require Hizballah's disarmament. Indeed, its success in fighting the 18-year Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000, won Hizballah national acclaim across the political spectrum in Lebanon. (Today, it relies on a flimsier pretext for maintaining an army, claiming that it is fighting to "liberate" the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of territory occupied by Israel that Hizballah claims is part of Lebanon but which the UN regards as part of Syria. Still, Hizballah has been careful in recent years to avoid provoking Israeli retaliations...
This spirit, however, came at a price. In December 1968, the military dictatorship passed a law which curtailed freedom of speech and artistic liberty. Shortly thereafter, Gil and Caetano Veloso, another Tropicalist founder, were imprisoned under the pretext that the two had disrespected the national hymn and the Brazilian flag. Their heads were shaved, and they were held in custody for several months. In July of 1969, they were exiled to London...
...order if we wish to bring balance to the faculty’s parochial perspective on undergraduate life. While Summers’ recent remarks and disrespectful style are unfortunate, the real tragedy would be if the faculty’s current discontent with the man were used as a pretext to discount his important ideas on undergraduate reform...
...Most UN member states believe the Bush administration used the fact that Iraq had not been certified by the Security Council as compliant with its disarmament obligations as a pretext for invading, even though, as Secretary General Kofi Annan himself has charged, the Council provided no legal authorization for the invasion. Many foreign governments fear that Washington hopes to bring the Iran matter to the Security Council simply to provide a pretext for another military action that would be opposed by most of the international community. And last week's allegations by outgoing Secretary of State Powell that Iran...