Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mores of our time, but the church, the law, and especially psychiatry, the Modern Religion. The festivities open in the private mental health clinic of Dr. Prentice (Alexander Pearson), who, as the lights go up, is interviewing an ingenue, Geraldine Barclay (Melissa Franklin), for a secretarial post. Under the pretext of determining her suitability for the job, the good doctor has Miss Barclay undress on a couch hidden behind a conveniently placed curtain. Enter Mrs. Prentice (Alexandra Phillips) at this most unpropitious time. While Dr. Prentice silently implores Miss Barclay to remain still behind the curtain, the couple launch into...
...oppose detente, but it must be a genuine detente that protects the independence and security of Third World countries--not a pretext for Soviet expansion. The United States' failure to respond to the Afghan invasion only confirmed our deepest fears and reservations about detente as well as the prospects for peaceful negotiation...
...single arbitrary or violent act by Soviet authorities has passed without public protest. These incidents must continue to receive attention because as one letter of defense for an arrested dissident said: "(his) enemies have many ways to sentence (him) to a new term under any false pretext. They can do this secretly or slander him in the newspapers. They can deprive him of defenders or they can intimidate them. We, his friends, have only one way of helping him: publicity. May as many people as possible know of his courageous struggle and his new arrest...
Increased U.S. military aid could also offer a pretext for the guerrillas' backers in Nicaragua and elsewhere to step up their own covert, and possibly even overt support. Thus, even as the guerrilla offensive appeared to have been halted for the foreseeable future, officials in the new Reagan Administration were worried that El Salvador might soon confront them with one of their first serious foreign policy dilemmas. -By Sara Medina...
...order counterforce to the Tupamaros, the violent young leftist radicals, similar to Italy's Red Brigades, who scourged the country with guerrilla terror. The military's apparent mistake in fashioning the rejected constitution was the sweeping power it gave itself. Under the vague pretext of national security, it was to have a part in virtually every organ of government, and could interrupt the political process at any time the military chiefs determined that there was an emergency...