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Arms purchases on such a scale could not have occurred without the implicit ! approval of governments. "A deliberate effort to fail to be informed," says Cordesman, "is just another form of collaboration." In a belated acknowledgment that arming one perceived monster to fight another can boomerang, Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet counterpart, Alexander Bessmertnykh, issued a joint statement last week calling for restraint in the "spiraling arms race" in the Middle East. A gesture, most likely, both too little and too late...
...biggest political threat to the coalition seemed to be that the Soviet Union might throw its weight behind various cease-fire proposals kicking around the United Nations. That might be a way of delivering an implicit message to the U.S.: If you make trouble for us in the Baltics, we'll make trouble for you in the gulf...
...January it reported that for the first time in more than a century the proportion of black Americans living in the South had taken an upward climb: 56% lived in the region in 1988, up from 52% in 1980. More important than the number of blacks, however, is the implicit indictment of the North and the redemption of the South contained in this black to-and-fro. "What's unusual is that they were immigrants to another country in a real sense, and ordinarily, immigrants don't go back to the old country to stay," says Lemann...
...much explicit sexuality. Too much implicit innuendo. Too much immorality. Too much controversy. Free expression is fine and dandy, MTV officials explained, but this time, Madonna has gone too far. At least that's what our advertisers tell...
...explicit sexuality goes, it's pretty tame. A nipple here, a nuzzle there--we're not talking hard-core pornography. As far as implicit innuendo goes, there's nothing too shocking, either. A bisexual fantasy here, an S&M fantasy there--fantasies about consenting adults never hurt anyone, not even Rev. Wildmon...