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...that calls itself the Democrats of the Russian Federation, the Ukraine and Baltic Republics. The unusual nature of the document has, in fact, caused some suspicion that it may have been written by an anti-Communist group in Western Europe and then seized upon by the KGB as a pretext for cracking down on dissident elements. According to one account, the KGB has used the appeal to justify sweeping investigations not only in Tallin, but also in other places, including Leningrad, the Azerbaijan city of Baku and the Siberian industrial center of Khabarovsk...
...message. While the Joint Chiefs, backing their general in Viet Nam, still urged that the trials be held, Nixon sent Resor to the rostrum to kill the charges and set the Berets free. The claim that the CIA would not allow its agents to testify was only a pretext-and a transparently clumsy one at that-for calling the whole thing...
Claiming that he could not read the dismissal order without his glasses, he sent a secretary out of the room on the pretext of fetching them. The secretary promptly telephoned the local radio station, and while most Cipolenos were at their midday meal, they heard a broadcast describing the "reprehensible outrage." Quickly they rallied to support Salto, an obstetrician who since 1963 had vastly improved the city's school, water and sewer systems, set up neighborhood medical dispensaries and won wide popularity...
...with a team of four lawyers for the defense. The courtroom is packed with "family," friends who laugh and whisper insults when Mosley raises objections. To further isolate the prosecutor, defense lawyers win a motion to have his principal investigator, Detective Joseph Price, removed from the courtroom on the pretext that they might call him as a witness. The book also strongly implies that judges are often favorably disposed toward sustaining defense objections, perhaps partly to avoid the embarrassment of having the verdict set aside later because of an error in procedure...
...Soviets kept their 100,000 occupation troops well out of sight, though they were poised to strike in the event the demonstrations got out of control. There were even rumors that archconservative elements in the Czechoslovak party might provoke serious outbursts in order to provide the Soviets with a pretext for another intervention...