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In London, the Times ran a hard-line editorial saying that "it will not be enough this time for fire-power to be marshalled and then abandoned on some diplomatic pretext.
I was disappointed that there was no entry for Wilson Goode, the first black mayor of Philadelphia, or for Dick Allen, the first black superstar baseball player for the Phillies, who was traded to St. Louis in the deal that was to bring Curt Flood to Philadelphia, the deal that Flood used as a pretext for challenging the reserve clause.
Their campaign has two main purposes, it said: first, to find a pretext for the West to distance itself from Boris Yeltsin, whom it no longer needs as a bulwark against communism; and second, to dump Gore as a contender for the presidency.
Several members of the French Parliament used Kenneth Starr as a pretext to protest a proposed increase in the independence of public prosecutors in France.
Seven experts in conservation and pathology entered the royal vault in Weimar by night on the pretext that one of the clasps on Goethe's sarcophagus had broken and his remains might deteriorate.