Word: pretexting
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...Laborites also are attempting to tear apart the coalition. Party leaders pressured Peres to use the Herut convention crisis as a pretext to dismantle the unity government and hold early elections. They have even initiated negotiations with small party leaders to test out their chances for a coalition without Likud...
...South Korean capital. According to Chun, his country's enemies have already begun maneuvering to sabotage two big events on Seoul's calendar: the 1986 Asian Games, beginning in September, and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Oppositionists reply that the government is using the threat from the North as a pretext to stifle dissent. Both West Germany and Israel, they point out, preserve a civilian democracy despite the dangers of attack from across their borders...
Wilson's animosity toward the Huertistas led him to seek any pretext for an American intervention in Mexican affairs. He then manipulated an incident in which American naval officers were erroneously arrested--and quickly released--by apologetic Huertista forces to garner Congressional and public support for his policy. Wilson's stubborness led to a deployment of American sailors and Marines in Mexico that he later regretted. Only the looming European war prevented the outbreak of full-scale war between the U.S. and Mexico...
...invasion remained in dispute, and even some Administration officials conceded that it had been somewhat exaggerated, given that Sandinistas and contras regularly tangle along the border. Nevertheless, like Muammar Gaddafi's fitful missile attack on the U.S. fleet in the Gulf of Sidra, the Nicaraguan incursion provided a suitable pretext for showing U.S. military might in the region...
...satisfy the onerous requirements of public relations both at home and abroad, Reagan had to find a pretext for sailing the Sixth Fleet into harm's way. But assuring free passage in international waters had only a little more to do with the actual reasons for sending ships across Gaddafi's line of death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always...