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...Hong Kong and turned the craft over to Taiwan. That represented a major concession by Peking's negotiators, who had originally demanded that Taiwan send a delegation to the mainland to pick up the jet. Taiwan rejected the proposal outright for fear that it might be misread as an implicit recognition of the Communist government. A Taipei official insisted last week that the island's policy toward Peking was still "no contact, no negotiations and no compromise...
...audience. Especially well-done is a scene which requires most of the cast to write essays on Peter Rabbit. The essays are sung aloud in well-blended and well-performed sketch. Lucy approaches the assignment with characteristic single-mindedness. Schroeder waxes poetic. And Linus examines the psychological motivating factors implicit in the story...
Giving to the Class Gift involves a "certain degree of implicit consent with the University's South African investment policies," said Jon E. Klaaren '86, co-president...
...MORE dangerous aspect of the Meese doctrine is the implicit idea that the Constitution is a static document. To the attorney general, the founders' specific views and opinions--rather than the broad conceptions of government and rights which they put down in the Constitution--are binding upon American society throughout the generations. If a right did not exist in the 18th century, it is unwarranted judicial activism for a court to decide that it exists now. Hence Meese denounces the application of the Bill of Rights to the states and rejects the Miranda decision...
...phrase "rumors say," rather than newsy attributions like "sources said," was used because the information was told to me when I was not acting in my capacity as a reporter. The piece was not intended as an investigative expose--others at campus news organizations are responsible for muckraking, and implicit in the article was a criticism of their lack of success...