Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conservative Club snowed remarkably poor judgement in holding a private luncheon with the South Africa Consul General on Thursday, May 2. Given the sensitivity of this issue, the Conservative Club's action appears blatantly provocative and could be easily interpreted as tacit approval of apartheid. This is not to say that the views of the South African government should not be heard, only that it would be far more appropriate if this were done in a public forum...
...surface. Invoking the spirit of West Germany's first postwar Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung editorialized: "You cannot have both good Germans in the alliance and bad Germans as a standard of depravity. That would not only split West Germany but also deprive the alliance of the tacit understanding on which Adenauer's decision for the West was based: that the past is past...
...growing Soviet pressures are viewed with concern in Pakistan. Says a Western intelligence officer in Islamabad: "The Soviets have been telling the Pakistanis that the Soviet Union no longer wants to keep Soviet-Pakistani relations separate from the issue of Afghanistan. That, in effect, has torn up the tacit understanding that has existed between them." The understanding has been beneficial to Pakistan: since 1972 it has received an estimated $700 million in Soviet...
...student statement, which call Bok's letter a victory for campus activist groups, says that Bok's criticims of Reagan's policy "constructive engagement" is hypocritical. The students cited Bok's criticism of the Administration's "tacit acquiescence in a status quo which offends our most precious ideas," charging that this position could equally apply to Harvard's reluctance to completely divest...
...lawyers called the reopening of the case a "judicial lynching." Says Joseph Kelner: "Mr. Morgenthau has been highly pressured by politicians who see gain in this for themselves. If he has a new witness, you have to wonder why they pop up now." Arguing that there is a tacit conspiracy among officials to convict his client in the court of public opinion, Kelner cites the decision this month to release a brooding confession Goetz made when he surrendered at a Concord, N.H., police station nine days after the shootings. "He's being turned from a crime victim into a criminal...