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...disposes of Cambodia in one sentence, stating merely that "Article 20 of the [January] agreement regarding Cambodia and Laos shall be scrupulously implemented." Yet fierce fighting still rages along the access routes to Phnom-Penh, as U.S. warplanes continue flying combat missions. Kissinger implied that he has a tacit understanding with Tho that could bring peace to Cambodia and Laos (where fighting has stopped but no progress toward a political settlement has been made). Tho has denied that there is any understanding, secret or otherwise...
CAMBODIAN BOMBING. William Beecher, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times (now an official at the Pentagon), reported on May 9, 1969 that U.S. B-52s were bombing Communist targets in Cambodia for the first time in the Indochina war-and with the tacit approval of Cambodia's then ruler Norodom Sihanouk. The report seems to have had little impact upon enemy action since the Communists knew perfectly well that they were being bombed. But the disclosure itself clouded the Administration's credibility (as well as that of Prince Sihanouk), since Nixon had been trying to convince...
...country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits "lackeys of fascism." Others voiced an outdated fear that Jesuits would seek to make Switzerland a Catholic state. Actually, the Jesuits have been working quietly in Switzerland for years with tacit government approval. The repeal of the old laws will mainly mean an opportunity to operate their own parishes, to teach in universities or perhaps open an experimental religious community...
...this point in the planning, probably little can be done to stop the library construction. The library evidently has the tacit approval of the Cambridge Planning and Development Department even though the City has not released its report on Cambridge's objectives in the Kennedy development...
...have only presented in capsulated from some of the issue of contemporary medical ethics. Although our biases in the following pages will inevitably be transparent, we attempt only to enlighten our readers to the issues. For clearly all of society must now contend with these problems. We cannot give tacit consent to physicians to behave in manners subject only to the judgment of their own consciences. For their profession is not a private affair: they must be subject to the evaluation of their individual clientele and responsible to the society at large. Historically, sanction by silence has inveitably...