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Historic Compromise. The tacit accommodation is based upon mutual need. Although the Christian Democrats oppose the notion of the historic compromise, they must have the Communists' good will to pass legislation, maintain labor peace and stay in office. The Communists want a stable political atmosphere so that their gradual ascent to power will seem plausible, logical and even inevitable...
...problem has intensified ever since 1961, when the Russian Orthodox Church joined the council. There was a tacit agreement to spare the delegates from Moscow any embarrassment, and Soviet sins have gone unnoticed. One Nairobi delegate, Scottish Episcopal Priest Richard Holloway, has called the attitude a "conspiracy of silence...
...went to who came from a fairly religious Jewish family. She had a special dispensation to skip the Christmas pageant, and while the rest of the school rehearsed Christmas carols she would sit there silently, looking solemn and self-righteous. In a way, I suppose, her aloofness was a tacit accusation against the rest of us for participating--the school was about 10 per cent Jewish. But she never made me feel guilty. All I felt was pity for her, because she was missing out on music that, whatever the lyrics meant, was some of the most beautiful...
UNITA, BY CONTRAST, is a much less powerful organization based in the central highlands whose leader, Jonas Savimbi, hopes to mediate between FNLA and MPLA forces. The current situation dictates a tacit alliance with the FNLA to prevent the MPLA from acquiring national hegemony, meshing with the general strategy of foreign anti-MPLA forces whose support the opportunistic Savimbi is unlikely to reject...
...that what she meant when she admonished you for worshipping weakness? Maybe these days she really is aiming for a genteel brand of obscenity. It's hard to guess why she should. Apparently her flock wants it that way. Better leave the cussing out altogether--tacit apologies make it so utterly superfluous...