Word: pretexting
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Whatever the pretext for confrontation, the game is likely to continue. By now, it has settled into a familiar pattern: Saddam keeps probing to see how far he can go in dragging his feet on complying with, or actually defying, the cease-fire terms. He provokes George Bush and allies into threatening new military action. Saddam then backs down -- until the next time...
...extradition)) treaty ((with the U.S.)). Mr. Escobar thinks that one must take justice into one's own hands. I don't agree. He thinks that a criminal can win a war against the state. I think that is absurd. The crimes he has committed in Colombia on the pretext of narco trafficking have been very grave mistakes...
Elsewhere, authorities are working to bring the flesh market under control. Britain passed a law in 1989 forbidding organ sales after a Turk complained that he had been lured to Britain with a job offer, sent to a hospital under a false pretext, then anesthetized and relieved of one of his kidneys. Germany is pushing through a similar law, spurred in part by an abortive offer from a Soviet medical institute to provide German patients with Russian kidneys for a fee of $68,570 -- payable in deutsche marks...
...reassuring their own minorities, especially ethnic Russians, that they are entitled to full rights of citizenship. A revealing moment came during the central authorities' brutal but abortive crackdown in January. Not only did Kremlin agents fail to goad the Balts into armed resistance, which would have provided a pretext for more bloodshed, but local ethnic Russians also refused to form a pro-Moscow fifth column. Instead many sided with the secessionists...
...While these preferences have an adverse affect on Asian-Americans, we determined that they were long standing and legitimate, and not a pretext of discrimination," Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Michael L. Williams said...