Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissident issue. Not now at least. The Italians defend free expression but draw the line at anti-Soviet hostility. The party still has a large constituency of working-class oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship of a small layer of the country over the rest of the society," Berlinguer scolded...
...political life. Communist loyalists staged intermittent work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the arrests, and FREEDOM FOR CARRILLO demands appeared on Madrid walls faster than government workers could clean them off. Protesters rallied in Paris and Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support of the country's powerful and legal Communist Party, was put upon to express its concern about Carrillo's arrest. As Carrillo admitted after he was taken to Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, "The longer I stay here, the more propaganda I am making for the Communist...
...Under a tacit agreement, the British government has left BP's managers free to go their own way, even when they have strained politicians' patience. During the 1973 Arab oil embargo, BP diverted shipments of Middle Eastern crude away from Britain, where prices were under government control, to Germany, where the market was free. The same year, BP pulled out of the unprofitable Italian market, with never a word from Whitehall about what that would do to Common Market solidarity...
Although Denes favors legalized abortion, In Necessity and Sorrow provides a tacit indictment of the practice. The material gathered inclucates in the reader the distressing impression that abortion by any other name would be murder. Yet, on a more intellectual level, it stands as a defense of the right of individuals to control and exercise responsibility over their bodies...
...lives, the civil war in Lebanon took a hopeful turn last week. Reason: Syrian troops, who only a week earlier had been combatants in the war, suddenly switched to peacemakers and took the road to Beirut-in order to enforce peace between the Christian and Moslem factions. With the tacit permission of other major Arab powers-notably Egypt and Saudi Arabia-Syria was on the verge of turning Lebanon into a de facto protectorate...