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...climbed from 5% to nearly 30% since 1969. Marchais obviously felt that it would be better for the left to lose the elections altogether if the Communists could not win on their own terms. Mitterrand was clearly angered. "Is it possible," he asked, "that the Communist Party, under the pretext of not achieving a certain percentage, would sacrifice the immense hopes of the French...
...Outlaw "pretext" interviews-in which an investigator impersonates a doctor or clergyman to squeeze out information that should be kept private...
They get you on some small pretext; they torture you, and the only way they leave open as an alternative to death is recantation. You recant and you stay alive; you don't recant and you rot or die in prison...
Intimate Brainstorming. After the summit Carter was to remain in London, ostensibly to discuss Berlin with Callaghan, Schmidt and Giscard. In fact, that was merely a pretext (also used by Henry Kissinger) to enable the West's four major military powers to hold an intimate brainstorming session about pressing global political issues. Since there are currently no major problems over Berlin, the Big Four were expected to discuss the Middle East, conventional arms exports, nuclear proliferation and the SALT talks...
President Carter's emphasis on human rights clearly played a role in the Americans' expulsion. Only last February, after reviewing a State Department report excoriating the Mengistu regime for widespread abuses, the White House withdrew $6 million in military assistance to Ethiopia. Making the gesture a pretext for conclusively switching Ethiopia's allegiance from Washington to Moscow, Mengistu did not appear at all perturbed when the U.S. suspended shipment late last week of another $100 million in arms already pledged to his government...