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NIXON has not had to lie to be devious. He has just kept silent on the pretext that he is afraid of jeopardizing the Paris peace talks...
...would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
Western strategists suggested that Moscow might be pinching the cold war's most sensitive nerve to divert attention from its repression of CzechoSlovakia. By fostering a crisis atmosphere, the Russians might be seeking a pretext for stationing Soviet troops in Rumania. On the theory that nothing unites reluctant allies like a good common enemy, Soviet leaders may also hope to heal some of the deep splits among Eastern European nations by sounding alarms about neo-Nazism in West Germany. With the first planning session for its long-sought Communist summit scheduled to begin this week in Budapest, the Kremlin...
...also, however, given permission for the annual pro-Cuba parade to be held in the same place. The pro-Cuba demonstrators were supporters of Castro and thus considered Communist. When the two demonstrations came close to each other the police intervened with clubs and guns on the pretext of stopping a riot. Thirty-six prisoners were taken (one of them was Pete Seeger's daughter...
...They charged that new hoards of arms hidden away for insurrectionists had been discovered in Czechoslovakia. The Prague government denied it. Privately, Czechoslovak officials claimed that a cache of U.S.-made guns discovered near the West German border last month was probably planted there by Russian troops as a pretext for intervention, should one be required...