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...bores him. There were rumors that the prince's relatives had profited enormously from government contacts. After Sihanouk was deposed, his wife, attractive Princess Monique, was attacked for alleged profiteering. Even Queen Kossomak, Sihanouk's mother, was the subject of ugly speculation on the same count. "The pretext was that Sihanouk was not doing enough against the Vietnamese," said a young Cambodian businessman. "The real reason was that we were all tired...
...ventures in Ostpolitik had a bad ending. As Foreign Minister in the Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, Brandt established relations with Rumania early in 1967 and offered diplomatic and economic ties to Czechoslovakia. The Soviets seized on the West German approaches to Prague as a major pretext for crushing Alexander Dubček's idealistic experiment of wedding Western-style political liberties with Communism. Now Brandt is far more cautious...
...talks are believed to be stalemated, there have been no reports of renewed tension along the border. One explanation for the war preparations is that the Chinese, who seem genuinely afraid of Soviet military power, suspect that the Russians might seize on a breakdown in the talks as a pretext for launching a military strike against China. A war scare also serves Mao's domestic interests. Though 15 months ago he called an official halt to the disruptive Cultural Revolution that had brought the country to the verge of civil war, China remains wracked by internal dissension and severe...
...that not everyone went along with the manipulated majority-but that is a sterile exercise in working out our own frustrations. The march is the social event of the season-but that isn't enough to justify the long drive (below the speed limit, so as to give no pretext for arrests...
...disappeared and he tripled the fare. This kind of harassment was reported by many of the marchers who had run into difficulties getting to Washington. Thousands of New Yorkers never made it because their chartered buses did not appear. Some bus drivers, half way to Washington, would find a pretext for delaying the trip-one of them actually turned around in New Jersey and drove back to New York because, he said, he was working overtime. A girl from lower Manhattan told me that when she learned her bus had been cancelled, she called up railroad information and explained...