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...pressuring the press to withhold information strikingly similar to what was being openly disclosed in the Baltimore court. As the trial got under way, NSA Director William Odom and CIA Director William Casey issued an extraordinary statement admonishing / that the information revealed at the trial should not be a pretext for further disclosures about intelligence methods. Citing the "competing interests" of prosecutorial revelations and the need to protect the national security, the two intelligence chiefs warned reporters against "speculation and reporting details beyond the information actually released at trial." Allan Adler, legislative counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, called...
...days of testimony. An admitted smuggler of farm workers, Cruz was paid $21,000, in part to infiltrate church meetings and obtain evidence against the Sanctuary workers with a hidden tape recorder. To make the arrests easier, Cruz even asked his Bible-study partners for their addresses, on the pretext of sending them Christmas cards...
...escort warships and two other support vessels. Once again, as in the clashes around the Gulf of Sidra three weeks ago, the flattops were prepared to launch their 160 fighters and bombers against targets in the desert country of Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. But this time there was no pretext that the exercise was to assert the right of free passage in international waters...
...course, needs to be able to prove Gaddafi's complicity in order to justify reprisals, particularly military measures. The lack of "hard evidence" is constantly cited as a pretext by uneasy allies seeking to sidestep firm measures against the supporters of terrorism. Not everyone was satisfied with what Washington felt it could safely reveal. West German intelligence officials, who were provided with abbreviated and heavily edited summaries of the intercepted transmissions, accepted that there was some Libyan complicity in the Berlin bombing but were unwilling to hang all the blame on Gaddafi...
...refrozen dozens of times over the months of painting it) or the frosty, glaucous eye, staring at nothing. It is still life in the non-English sense, nature morte, "dead nature." In the hands of a melodramatic or cheaply "humanistic" artist, this rabbit would have been a pretext for the pathetic fallacy. But in Lopez's hands its death is its own and no one else's; and its minutely observant reconstruction under the brush, each nuance of its shrunken flesh reconstituted by a mark, fleck or scribble of paint that carries its wiry vitality as a sign, gives...