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...United Nations Office of Public Information, was a veteran KGB man whose special assignment is to cultivate U.S. scientists. Pavlichenko called the story "slanderous and false." Though his $27,000-a-year job was renewed last week, there was speculation that he would eventually return to Moscow on one pretext or another...
...over the past 15 years to be more than our total earnings from Chile in that period," complained Kennecott President Frank Milliken, whose firm has been a particularly good corporate citizen in Chile. Said Anaconda President John Place: "Allende's accounting theory is nothing more than a thin pretext for confiscation. He's now contrived to grab the world's biggest open-pit copper mine [Anaconda's Chuquicamata], plus a second major underground mine, and not pay a dime...
That sounded like a pretext for Soviet intervention under the Brezhnev doctrine, which proclaims that the Soviet Union has the right to protect Communism in other countries by whatever means necessary...
...security has been increased at the main radio station and public utilities. In recent weeks an old Diem regulation has been revived, which prohibits Vietnamese Air Force planes from overflying Saigon. As a final perverse touch, rumors have been floated that Thieu might launch a phony coup as a pretext to arrest...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...