Word: tacit
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...letter also charged that the Reagan Administration's current policy of "constructive engagement" creates the impression among South Africans that "the American government, despite its denunciation of apartheid, has a policy of tacit acquiescence in the status...
...Globe wrote that unless Bok revises Harvard's investment policy in companies doing business in racially torn South Africa, students will respond that Harvard is a "tacit supporter of apartheid" and will escalate protest activities as they did this past spring...
Nonetheless, the arrangement worked out by the three governments presumably calls for the freeing of the Lebanese, perhaps as early as this week for at least some, and the U.S. had a "tacit understanding" with Israel that this would occur. An Israeli military source told the Associated Press after the Cabinet session that he expected the release of the detainees to begin within several days. At least some hiatus was necessary, he said, to prevent the appearance of a quid pro quo deal. The release schedule also depended on the security situation in southern Lebanon, he added...
Fragments of evidence -- secret payments, cryptic cables, visits from high Iranian officials -- indicate that Khomeini's regime may be in close touch with the terrorists, if not managing them. The camps enjoy at least the tacit support of Syria as well, since the Bekaa Valley is controlled by Damascus. In a remarkably candid speech last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad conceded that Syria was in contact with extremist groups who are holding seven Americans, four Frenchmen and one Briton, seized over the past 18 months. Assad mildly rebuked the kidnapers for violating a "code of honor between combatants," but praised...
...people who defend their just cause." Abu Mousa, another leading P.L.O. dissident, accused Amal of "disseminating lies to cover its crimes against Palestinians." While the battlefield alliance hardly amounted to a permanent reunification of the bitterly divided P.L.O., it demonstrated to Syria, which had given at least tacit backing to the Amal offensive, that its control over the anti-Arafat Palestinians could not be taken for granted...