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...countries earlier this year, and this month a direct U.S.-Albania link is being inaugurated by AT&T. This week the National Assembly begins meeting to consider a number of -- for Albania -- revolutionary proposals. Among them: reinstituting the Ministry of Justice, which was abolished in the '60s on the pretext that it was no longer needed, and the right of the accused to have a defense lawyer...
...Cambodian problem serves only as a pretext. The greatest mistake of the U.S. is not the Vietnam War. It is this strategy of using Vietnam as a pawn in the relationship between China and the U.S. It would be much better if the U.S. considered Vietnam in terms of its intrinsic value...
...from the Interior Ministry, two blocks away. At the ministry there are eight Soviet correspondents. "These economic demands are stupid," says a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter. "How can the Tadzhiks demand economic independence when they import a billion more rubles each year than they export? The religion is just a pretext. The young people pay no attention to the mullahs...
...last week dramatized his feelings on both narcotics and U.S. intervention at a ceremony honoring 70 members of the Mexican army and Federal Judicial Police who died in 1989 in the fight against drugs. In a clear reference to Panama, the Mexican leader said narcotics trafficking "has been a pretext for foreign intervention, and this is inadmissible." Though the Bush Administration would like to believe otherwise, Salinas spoke for most Latin American leaders...
SUDAN. Since seizing power in a coup last June, Bashir has found one pretext after another for preventing relief agencies from helping the hungry. In November his fundamentalist Muslim government stopped a grain train and banned all emergency relief flights bound for the Christian and animist south. Khartoum justified the blockade of food and medical supplies by claiming that aerial bombardments of two rebel-held towns in the south made it too dangerous for relief workers to operate. When the rebels, who have no aircraft, charged that the bombings were in fact the work of the government, an official % spokesman...