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...social contract with their citizens under which they pledged never willingly to risk such suffering again. In the U.S. and Canada the contract has been enshrined in laws that require Washington and Ottawa to work always for the highest possible employment. In other nations the commitment is tacit but nonetheless binding; the French government, for instance, lives in fear that even a slight rise in unemployment could touch off another round of les événements de mai ?the near-revolution...
...inane criticisms of Kilson's analysis have consistently ignored the functional/existential dualism in black culture and thus, ironically, provide tacit admission to the strength of Kilson's position. They intuitively sense the lack of the existential dimension in his analysis, but they fail to analytically account for it. Why? Because the functional dimension of culture cannot be analytically understood solely from the existential perspective--such is the gift of only poets and artists. It is no surprise that Kilson's critics mistake his functionalist cultural assertions to be existential ones...
Even West Germany, which officially disdains the sale of armaments, is said to be back in the arms business. Despite government denials, reports persist that Bonn is negotiating to build a tank-parts factory in Teheran. Private German armsmakers report soaring sales to the Middle East and tacit government encouragement of any deal likely to win favor with the oil exporters. Says a veteran weapons dealer in Bonn: "If you know the secret word, you can get an arms export license to any Arab country in eight days. The secret word...
...most serious charges against Geneen aren't related to Watergate at all. They have to do with his company's admitted attempt to foment disorder in Chile in 1970, and the improper influence it and companies like it evidently exerted in getting the United States to offer the tacit support to the Chilean government's opponents that helped make September's coup possible. Geneen may be an accessory before the fact to the political killings Chilean generals have carried on since then, in part to protect ITT's profits...
However, what I actually said was the following: Golda is to be blamed for two misdeeds: first, her tacit alliance with the Likud (the rightist allignment) is in principle and in practice a violation of the Socialist, moderate, peace-oriented tradition of the Labor party and an unprecedented challenge to the majority of Labor's voters whose social and political ideology disagree with such previous policies as Dayan's 'crawling annexation' of the occupied territories which culminated in the notorious 'Gallili document'; the encouragement of a process which will enable Arab (cheap or expansive labor under Israeli management...