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...neighboring Latvia, special black beret units from the Interior Ministry mounted a similar show of force two weeks ago, causing fear that presidential rule would soon follow. "This invasion," declared the parliament in Riga, "is only a pretext for starting a large-scale attack on the democratic institutions of Latvia." A contingent of Baltic lawmakers gathered for a regional conference in Finland went even further. Echoing the warning of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze when he abruptly resigned in protest last month, they charged that Moscow's display of the iron fist signaled "the restoration of the power of dictatorship...
...like an old James Dean movie with two cars speeding towards each other and the loser is the one who veers away first," Ricigliano said. "We have to provide [President] Bush with a pretext for diplomacy...
...American lives, to draw him in. Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, America Firsters might have prevailed in keeping the U.S. out of World War II. The Tonkin Gulf incident, in which Washington claimed North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on U.S. warships, provided Lyndon Johnson with a pretext to secure congressional support of the escalation in Vietnam...
...painful, which is where foreign policy comes in. Many Kuwaitis expect -- and would welcome -- an indefinite U.S. troop presence on their soil. "Reflagging" the effort by adding Arab troops could make the action more palatable, but "it is the Americans we need," says a Kuwaiti official, "more for pretext than for security. Do you think the U.S. will want a potential Palestinian terrorist threat close to its troops? We don't." There were more than 300,000 Palestinians in Kuwait before Aug. 2. "If there are 100,000 left a year from the end of this, I will be surprised...
...finds that the reasons or goals provided by Harvard for giving preferences to children of alumni and recruited athletes are legitimate institutional goals, and not a pretext for discrimination against Asian Americans. Additionally, Harvard has asserted, and OCR accepts, that there are no alternatives to these preferences that could effectively accomplish the same legitimate goals...