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...Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely applied legal principle: the rule of tacit admission. On the theory that an innocent man would loudly deny a serious charge, the rule holds that a suspect silent in the face of an accusation has tacitly admitted the crime. And such silence can later be introduced at his trial as an indicator of guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Does Silence Mean Guilt? | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...accident that the Democrats have controlled New York City for so many years. In exchange for a certain number of patronage jobs the Republicans have long had a tacit agreement with the Democrats not to seriously challenge their leadership. In the recent brought presidency election in Queens, for example, the Republicans did not even field a candidate...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: New York's Quiet Revolution: John Lindsay Builds a Machine To Dethrone City's Democrats | 4/29/1967 | See Source »

Birth control, for the Dutch, is another closed question. Surveys indicate that 60% of Catholic women in The Netherlands practice contraception, most of them with the tacit approval of their parish priests. One of them is Mrs. Tine Govaart, a mother of three, and a leading Catholic laywoman who attended the first two sessions of Vatican II as an unofficial observer and journalist. "I started taking the pill when I was attending the council," she says. Mrs. Govaart also challenges church teaching on the sinfulness of premarital sex. "It is ridiculous to assume that intercourse should end in marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Radical, Revolutionary Church of The Netherlands | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...government able to rule the vast reaches of Russia proved far more difficult. The Duma committee had included every shade of political color, from socialists to disaffected aristocracy. To head the first provisional government that followed. Prince Lvov, a liberal nobleman, was chosen. The Bolsheviks soon withdrew their tacit support from this "bourgeois" government, and Lenin hurried back to Petrograd to organize his attack. By July 2 he had mounted a sufficiently impressive uprising of sailors and workers to cow Prince Lvov into resigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: The Lost Revolution | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Syrian-based "Palestine Liberation Army" infiltrated Jordan to join the struggle to overthrow King Hussein; other terrorists were attempting similar moves against Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. With the tacit approval of Damascus, a school for saboteurs was in full swing in the arid hills above the Sea of Galilee. Syria's leaders were even attempting to topple the neighboring socialist regime of Iraq, whose petroleum riches Syria would like to turn over to "the Arab masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: To the Left, March | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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