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...Commonwealth Avenue. Riot police block the side-streets. The Irish security man for the Fred Hampton Contingents is "pissed off" at the police, but thinks the change of route was necessary, Indeed you must pretend to ignore the police--but do all they demand. There is a tacit agreement. Don't make a fuss and there will be no split craniums, Quiver...
...Disney people were once able to pull off the occasional magical effect; if memory serves, there were quite a few in 1954's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Now the tacit supposition at the studio seems to be that the tykes will not notice the shoddy effects, and probably will not care much if they do. But the careless craftsmanship scrimps on the spectacle and destroys the romance of what might have been a pretty fair adventure. The story is a pastiche of lost-world yarns. It goes heavy on Jules Verne and throws in odd bits from...
...representing Harvard, the crew lends a certain degree of respectability to the Egyptian government. And in the past, Egypt has received a lot of press concerning the event. Yet, this year, the Harvard administration chose not to confront the issue of its tacit support for Egypt...
...phrase, says the center, "has resulted in a 95% waiver rate in some lower courts." In Houston and Belle Glade, Fla., according to the report, "it is assumed that a defendant has waived counsel unless he aggressively asserts .[the] right." In other jurisdictions, "defendants perceive, correctly or not, a tacit rule of court that those who ask for counsel are treated more harshly." Defendants of modest means are supposed to get free lawyers, but the financial screening can be arbitrary. In Birmingham, for example, center staffers found that the "posting of bail was used to declare a defendant financially ineligible...
...plan was to find the breaking point. A speech was written by Winston Lord, who later became Kissinger's assistant, who opposed the policy but wrote the draft for a presidential speech explaining the savage blow. The plans included mining Haiphong. I had been told throughout this period, a tacit assumption between us, my informants and me since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan, But Magruder gave some interesting clues as to why it was dropped. He says the administration was preoccupied with antiwar dissent, the success...