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...Barka. As chief of national security, Interior Minister Oufkir launched "Operation Ben Barka"-at first to keep track of the leftist dissident, but then to murder him. Working with French intelligence agents, Oufkir was able to lure Ben Barka from Geneva to Paris on a plausible but phony pretext: that Director Georges Franju (Head Against the Walls, Red Nights) wanted to make a film documentary about decolonization. Ben Barka was to meet Franju for lunch at the Brasserie Lipp when he was accosted by the two agents...
...Delhi - of border incursions by Indian troops. One Dacca version is that India wants to stir up unrest among Bangladesh's 10 million Hindus, thus encouraging them to flee to India as they did in 1971. India, according to this scenario, would use the ensuing chaos as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion. Foreign diplomats in Dacca regard the rumor as implausible...
...debate over busing had led many politicians and educators to predict that it will be abandoned as a tool for desegregating schools. Declares a university president in Massachusetts: "Busing is a cause whose time has passed." There is a danger that opposition to busing will be used as a pretext to fight the principle of desegregation itself. The dilemma for the nation is that busing cannot be abandoned in many cities without pushing back desegregation, because of the large distances separating black and white neighborhoods. That in turn could well lead to what educators term "urban apartheid...
...from ordering the seizures--as the American press unanimously reported--the PCP actually opposed them, knowing that they could serve as a pretext for rightist agitation against the Goncalves cabinet. The take-overs were carried out not by Communists or Socialists, but by workers supporting the "extreme left" and a policy of worker's control. Nor did the PCP prevent Republica and Renascenza from being returned to their "legal" owners--this decision was made by General Carvalho, an independent leftist then heading the Lisbon military garrison...
...Viet Nams and their sponsors quickly protested that the U.S. was using the Korea issue as a pretext. Insofar as the U.S. was reluctant to give two U.N. votes to Hanoi, which for all practical purposes runs both Viet Nams, there was some truth to the charge. Even so, the refusal of the Communist and nonaligned countries to consider South Korea's application was nothing less than an egregious violation of the U.N.'s principle of universality...