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...might then be expected that the clergy, whose influence has not waned, would take the lead in opposing the paramilitaries. This has not been the case, tragically, and its failure to do so is one of the major reasons the use of violence receives the tacit and continuing support it does...
...paper rejects Israel's creation of new settlements on the West Bank and calls on all countries to halt emigration of their citizens to "occupied Palestinian and Arab territories." Significantly, the document distinguishes between territory occupied after the 1967 war and Israel's 1948 boundaries-a tacit admission that Israel has a right to exist as a state...
HUNGER, most Americans seem to believe, is one of those insoluble problems, a result of rapid population growth in a world with limited resources. Newspapers have stopped running those heart-wrenching pictures of malnourished babies in the Third World; we seem to have reached a tacit agreement that if the Green Revolution could not feed the world, nothing can. People will go on starving--in Bangladesh, in the Sahel, on the outskirts of every large Third World city--and the best we can hope to do is buy time until things get really serious, and save ourselves when they...
...since last year's election. The Christian Democrats won 39% of the vote and 263 of the 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (v. 34% and 228 seats for the Communists), and were unable to put together a majority coalition. Ever since, Andreotti has governed with the tacit support of the Communists and other major parties, who have consistently abstained on confidence votes. But this spring both the Communists and the Socialists (10% of the popular vote and 57 seats) demanded a more direct voice in government policy...
...main battle arena is Washington, where the antiabortionists have the tacit support of President Jimmy Carter, who personally opposes abortion and has repeatedly said that he does not think the Federal Government should do anything to encourage it. Almost alone at the Department of HEW, which administers Medicaid, Secretary Joseph Califano shares Carter's view. When he submitted HEW's budget for the fiscal year beginning in October, he urged that no Medicaid funds be used for nontherapeutic abortions...