Word: implicitly
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...there no other way? Many think there is, including former Carter Administration Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. "It is time to change U.S. policy," said Muskie recently. He suggested direct contact between the U.S. and the Hun Sen government, an end to Washington's "implicit" support for the Khmer Rouge, and separate verification of Vietnam's withdrawal as first steps toward a long-term political solution. This would shift the U.S. focus away from the rebel coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge and would require the U.S. to abandon its unyielding opposition to Hun Sen. As Muskie...
...implicit criticism of Gorbachev, Defense Minister Yazov has counter- attacked on the issue of budget cuts. "It is economically groundless and politically shortsighted," he said recently, "to try to make the reduction of defense expenditures the sole method of liquidating the budget deficit and the resolution of all of today's social problems." He went further, arguing that a modernization that would shift the emphasis from mass-conscript armies to smaller forces with high-tech weaponry would cost more, not less. The idea of eventually dropping the draft and adopting a volunteer professional army is still opposed by most...
Even as Congress and the Administration debate ways to assist the fledgling free nations that were once part of the Soviet orbit, the implicit assumption is that the U.S., with its sophisticated political systems, can again serve as the arsenal of democracy. From the Philippines in 1986 to Nicaragua last month, no one can gainsay the worth of impartial poll watchers and international inspection teams. But there is also a missionary strain in the American psyche that can inadvertently trample on foreign customs and cultures under the guise of strengthening democratic institutions. As the Hungarian experience suggests, democracy...
...letter went on to say, "No matter what goodthis program promises, the implicit legitimationof RJR and its cigarettes will produce vastlygreater negative consequences in terms ofaddiction, disease and death...
...attorneys who have examined excerpts say they contain no Iran-contra bombshells. But Poindexter, who insisted in Senate testimony that "the buck stopped with me" in keeping the diversion of arms profits a secret from his boss, hopes the diary will show that Reagan gave him at least implicit direction to do what...