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...stories have surfaced in such usually well-informed journals as Moscow News and Literaturnaya Gazeta. The first flock of rumors suggested that a pro- democracy, antigovernment rally in Moscow would serve as the pretext for the coup. The rally came and went with little incident. The rumors bubbled on -- even though conspiracy theorists cannot agree on who is supposed to be plotting against whom. While most talk is of a coup mounted by military conservatives eager to institute a law-and-order regime, Vladimir Petrunya, a commentator for TASS, has charged that it is reformist radicals who want to overthrow...
...While these preferences have an adverse affect on Asian Americans, we determined that they were longstanding and legitimate, and not a pretext of discrimination," said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Michael Williams in a prepared statement...
Released yesterday, the federal report cleared Harvard of any wrongdoing, noting that the admissions practices which adversely affected Asian Americans were "legitimate and not a pretext for discrimination...
...doubt that Stalin was behind the plot. Kirov had turned the Leningrad party organization into a good, active group. He was very popular, so a blow aimed at him would hurt the party and the people. That's probably why he was marked for sacrifice: his death provided a pretext for shaking up the country, alarming the people so that they would accept the terror and let Stalin get rid of the undesirables and "enemies of the people...
...fine-tune the run-up to hostilities. The question now being debated concerns provocation: What Iraqi action could credibly justify a fight? Is the invasion of Kuwait in itself adequate? Some in the Administration argue that it is, but "the longer war is delayed, the more contrived such a pretext would appear," says an American intelligence-community planner. "We've been bedeviled by the pretext thing for weeks, but we were greatly heartened by the Iraqi raid of foreign embassies" in Kuwait last Friday. "That kind of stupidity shows that Saddam is capable of providing a provocation at any time...