Word: explicitness
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...Israeli government must now carry out all the recommendations of the commission which has a clear moral, if not legal, authority. Friday, Prime Minister Menachem Begin's cabinet voted to do just that, and Sharon reportedly resigned from his defense post. The report does not make explicit whether Sharon and a few others must leave the government altogether or simply abandon the posts they now hold. The former course seems wisest. Should they remain in positions of power, these men will represent the failure of the system to cleanse itself, indeed to carry out the imperatives of democracy. Shatila...
...sharp turn in White House thinking. Though Reagan had always insisted that military spending must be exempt from budgetary restraints, he is now proposing a reduction for the sole purpose of shrinking the deficit. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who fought against the cuts and lost, made that reasoning explicit. Ashen-faced and biting off his words, Weinberger declared, "If it were not for the deficit, we would not have any suggestion that we not carry out the full program...
...Tootsie. Hoffman seems unreproachable for his portrayal of a New York City actor who becomes a woman actor in order to play a female star in a television soap opera Hoffman doesn't need to fill his portrayal of the struggling actor Michael Dorsey with homosexual innuendos or explicit feminine gestures. The comedy-of-errors resulting from Dorsey's efforts to become a woman without letting anybody know is hilarious by itself...
...West Virginia, socially conservative Charlestonians and coal miners in 1980 elected to Congress Republican Mick Staton, who had won local fame by leading a fight to remove textbooks that he considered unpatriotic or too sexually explicit from Kanawha County public schools. Campaigning for reelection, Staton told constituents this year that he felt he had been "raised up by God" to lead them. The voters disagreed; heavy unemployment reminded them of their traditional economic liberalism. They elected Democrat Bob Wise, a populist lawyer and state senator...
...official, who asked not to be identified, said that the changes simply made explicit the Defense Department's policy of punishing only the specific school barring the recruiters and not the entire university...