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...government that chooses to use these actions as a pretext for harming relations with the United States will be doing so on its own responsibility and at its own initiative." he continued. " and we will draw the appropriate conclusions...
...leaders began stressing the need for-nonviolence. The negotiations were proceeding generally slowly but well, and BAM leaders, aware of the presence of several police agents among the crowd who had been identified in previous demonstrations, did not want any violent actions. BAM desperately wanted to avoid any pretext the university could use for calling in the National Guard to squelch the strike, and specifically warned "police provocateurs" to go home. Just as it appeared that the university was about to settle the issue rationally. Sunday evening's negotiation session ended-and returned the situation to crisis...
...possibly imagine what it's going to be like," Glosser said last night. "I just want to do dull, ordinary things like go to Europe. I'm going to write poetry all the time; travelling is just a pretext...
...talks in the fruitless 21-month negotiations to find a formula for coexistence between the is land's 490,000 Greeks and 110,000 Turks were adjourned suddenly. "We would have been talking under the threat of guns," explained Turkish Leader Rauf Denktash. Moreover, Makarios, who on one pretext or another has delayed parliamentary elections for five years, may seize upon the tension as an excuse for canceling the June balloting...