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...President Lucas García has not held up his end of the implicit deal. TIME has learned that the Presidential Palace sent out specific orders to curb the killing during Walters' visit in order to improve Guatemala's bargaining position. After Walters' departure, the death rate rose to a new high and is now averaging roughly 400 a month...
Such tactics are not necessary every time there is a labor dispute; clearly, that would be ineffective. And this is a special case--the government has upped the stakes in this battle, declaring implicitly that it will battle the right to strike with every weapon in its arsenal. What's more, the controllers strike is so much in the news that the intervention of the whole labor movement would be a shot in the arm for American unions--and those trying to organize new industries. The notion of brotherhood implicit in trade unionism would be made reality, and the unselfish...
...taken, or even contemplated such a step, and the meaning of that decision reverberated long after the tie to the mother-country had been broken. Many of the issues in that decision were concrete, and the patriots, a uniquely articulate generation, spoke of them with eloquence and passion. But implicit in the decision to rebel were some forces that the patriots did not, indeed could not, understand. For his effort to confront those problems, Peter Shaw deserves credit...
...Implicit in the title of "tennis champion" is a certain code of behavior emphasizing patience, dignity, generosity, and courage. Stan Smith possessed these qualities during his brief reign at the top of the world rankings. Arthur Ashe rarely questioned a call and certainly never called an umpire a "fool" before thousands of fans. Further back, men like Laver and Rosewall exemplified these virtues, as did the countless female champions of the century. Today, the dominant force in men's tennis--Bjorn Borg--carries himself with the pride of a man who never has to whine for a point...
Stripped of its rhetoric, Begin's defense of the raid was based on an implicit strategic calculation: that tiny Israel, unlike...