Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack. Referring bitingly to a "credibility problem" at OMB, Tennessee Democrat James Sasser declared: "We're going to have to have truth in packaging this year." Even Illinois Republican Charles Percy wondered about the Administration's real commitment to the New Federalism, asking: "Is this a pretext for budget cutting...
...winter gained its independence at an incredible cost. Most reports estimated at least one million killed: some tripled that number. This slaughtering of Bengalis by Pakistani forces between March and December 1971 probably has no parallel in modern history except the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews. Under the pretext of putting down a threat to the unity of the nation of Pakistan, the genocide proceeded with a brutal and purposeful efficiency. Beginning in March with a raid by the Pakistani army on the capital city of Dacca, it fanned out rapidly to the countryside, destroying the villages and terrorizing...
...immediate pretext for Jaruzelski's action was Solidarity's growing support for rash proposals amounting to heresy in a Communist state, including a call for a national referendum on whether the government should remain in power. The union had also set Dec. 17, eleventh anniversary of the Gdansk food riots, as a day of national protest. But the government's massive military operation had been in preparation for a long time. Deployment of troops had begun at least a fortnight earlier. When authorities published a list of 57 dissidents who had been "detained," it was plain that the list...
...Senate was willing to surrender authority on such a questionable decision casts sharp doubt on American credibility abroad--not only in Israel. Reagan's brandishing of the big stick raises doubts in Europe about America's sincerity about maintaining peace, and furnishes the Soviet Union with a convenient pretext to step up intervention in the region...
...other backers of the mujahedin, Karmal claims, are not really interested in a Soviet pullout: "The forces of hegemonism and imperialism do not want the contingent to withdraw. Why? Because for them the continued presence here of our friends is a pretext that they can exploit against the Soviet Union...