Word: explicitness
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...claimed to have "conclusive documentation of the factual assertions made in the broadcast," which it too introduced in court. Subordinate officials of the CIA and the Pentagon asserted that they had indeed lowered pre-Tet estimates of enemy strength, under explicit or implied orders from Westmoreland's command team. Retired Army Major General Joseph McChristian suggested that Westmoreland may have sidetracked a cable about troop strength after saying it could be a "political bombshell." Said McChristian: "Although I usually sent my reports directly to Washington, General Westmoreland told me to leave it with him. I do not know what...
...with the names whited-out) to the lawyers for Charlotte Walters, a B&G worker who has filed suit on grounds of sexual harassment. Harvard has petitioned the court to have that information remain confidential in the lawyers' hands, an agreement that Walters' lawyers refuse to make without an explicit court order...
...Soviets then became increasingly explicit about their threat to walk out of the talks the moment the first U.S. missiles were in place-and perhaps before. In late October, Kvitsinsky was dining at Nitze's Geneva apartment along with Norman Clyne, a close aide to Nitze, and his wife Alice. Just as the gateau d 'orange dessert was about to be served, Mrs. Clyne jokingly told Kvitsinsky that he would not get his portion unless he revealed when the long-threatened walkout would take place. Kvitsinsky said he did not want to forgo dessert, and announced that...
Harvard's links to the clubs are not only morally troubling, they run in direct violation of the College's explicit policy forbidding official support of student groups with discriminatory practices. All sanctioned student organizations must sign a statement that they forbid discrimination--a statement the clubs have not signed...
Young, whose attraction to the project stemmed from its flexibility as much as its subject matter and whose film credits include a host of docudramas and independent ventures, agreed that Cortez' story had to be told as it was, without making an explicit social statement. The film is "an explanation of something that happened in history, with different viewpoints, so that people could evaluate what happened themselves--they need the ambiguity and contradiction," said Young, who rewrote the original script--adapted from the novel With His Pistol in His Hand by Americo Paredes--in the six days before production began...