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...assembly had simply never thought to ask permission. This confusion is perhaps inevitable. In the months since the first elections, the assembly has not been able to decide what its relationship to the University is or should be. The administration, on the other hand, has given the group tacit recognition, not demanding that the organization seek official approval from the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and freeing it from other red tape. In this way, the Student Assembly has been afforded many of the benefits of recognition without the disadvantages...
...surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...
...West is willing to sell weapons to an unreliable China that still speaks of the inevitability of war. At the same time, the Russians seem willing enough to accept the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, so long as the new friendship does not produce a tacit anti-Soviet alliance. Warns Georgi Arbatov, a Soviet expert on U.S. policy: "You cannot reconcile detente with attempts to make China some sort of military ally of NATO." A Western diplomat also cautioned: "I wonder if an economically and militarily powerful China by the year 2000 would be an unmitigated blessing...
...further effort to mollify Taiwan, the Administration implied strongly that they had received tacit assurances that Peking would not invade Taiwan. In the Shanghai communique, Peking insisted that it had the right to liberate Taiwan. Mainland China, Teng now told the Ad ministration, will seek reunification, but slowly, peacefully, and in a manner that will not disrupt Taiwan's capitalistic economic system. The U.S. will continue to sell Taiwan "selective defensive weapon ry"?which might include interceptor air craft, artillery, and antitank weapons. Said Carter, during an unusual visit to the White House press room after his speech...
...John J. Rhodes, a 14-term Republican congressman from Arizona, won another two years as GOP leader in the House as both caucuses, meeting separately, expressed tacit approval of their current leadership...