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...needed to reduce unemployment and stop inflation, is at least partly based on principle. He considers the application of Government muscle or the imposition of wage and price controls philosophically repugnant to a free economy and impractical to administer as well. Yet the result is what amounts to tacit White House acceptance of yet another round of wage and price increases...
Teach the West. The students who went to China last month are members of a more recent splinter: the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. Formed in 1968 to oppose other scholars' tacit toleration of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, the widely diverse group includes some self-proclaimed Maoists. Others in it believe that China's social experiments can teach the West something new about achieving prison reforms, operating public health programs, and developing an industrial economy that does not have wide differences in income and does not depend heavily on a technocratic elite. Another committee concern, as Wisconsin...
...essence of the tacit new U.S. position is "dual representation," in which China would take the Security Council seat that Taiwan now holds as well as the Chinese seat in the General Assembly; Taiwan would also be seated in the General Assembly. The question of Taiwan's relationship to China proper presumably would be left for future decision, but obviously the Nationalist regime's claim to be the government of China would no longer be recognized. But while Taiwan has indicated that it would remain in the U.N. if China were admitted to the General Assembly...
...York, William vanden Heuvel, chairman of the city's board of corrections, suggested that many petty offenders be required to do various socially beneficial jobs like cleaning up their neighborhoods instead of serving short jail terms. Underlying it all seems to be a tacit recognition that almost anything is better than doing time in the current U.S. prison system...
Officially Elmbrook has no house rules. There is tacit agreement, however, to maintain a minimum of noise, to wear coats to dinner, and generally to observe home manners. "We like to keep a family atmosphere," Richard F. Collier '72, one Elmbrook resident, said...