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Thompson Indicts. Daley has compelling reasons to use his illness as a pretext for an honorable exit when his fifth four-year term ends next April...
...time to parish work ("I am still very much a neighborhood type of priest"), the cardinal blocked a routine request for his transfer to a parish until Greeley comes to see him. Greeley has not done so, claiming that Cody might use his request for parish duties as a pretext for calling him entirely away from his scholarship and journalism...
...dissenters were also worried about "the possibility that a police officer ... will use a traffic arrest as a pretext to conduct a search." In fact, some do already; if they "toss" the suspect and find nothing, they may not even bother with the traffic arrest. Last week's decision makes clear that future legal attacks on traffic-arrest searches will focus on whether the arrest was called for in the first place...
...years younger and however many years older than me, I remember quite clearly the circumstances surrounding my discovery of the president's death. November 22 fell no Friday in 1963. I was in fifth grade at the time, but on that Friday I stayed home from school on the pretext of having a cold. I spent the morning lying in front of our color television, watching some rerun or some game show. After lunch I went back to the T.V. set and watched until the bulletin from Dallas came on. I did not believe the first sketchy reports...
Nixon was out to get Cox--that is plain. By surrendering the tapes he has, in fact, made it all the more obvious. The tapes were a pretext to fire Cox. If there had been a real issue involved with them Nixon would have sensibly carried his arguments to the Supreme Court. But with the diligent special prosecutor out of the way, the tapes no longer serve any purpose. And by now releasing them to the judge, Nixon may be trying to create the impression that he has made a major concession...