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Even if A.I.D. is "adultery," the plaintiff husband in a divorce suit is still in trouble. If he consented, his wife may claim "condonation" (his tacit forgiveness), which usually bars divorce. If he did not consent, he may still be unable to prove that A.I.D. ever took place: he does not know the donor, his wife has a right to silence, and the doctor may not be allowed to testify if she objects. As a result, the husband faces the difficult job of proving that he actually was sterile nine months before the birth of his wife's child...
...likelihood the NCAA's policymakers will accept the Ivy standards as tacit compliance. Despite initial heated exchanges between Ivy and NCAA officials last month, prospects now look bright for a settlement allowing Ivy teams to remain within the NCAA framework...
...such issues as decolonization, racial discrimination and economic development. On the major issues of war and peace, they will leave the decisions to the big powers. The only role the U.N. took in war and peace this year was over India and Pakistan, and there it was a tacit agreement between Russia and the West that cut off arms and supplies to the combatants and thus quelled the fighting...
...return for tacit pledges of "voluntary contributions" to a special U.N. peace-keeping fund, the U.S. last August dropped its insistence that Russia, France and ten other nations be denied a vote in the General Assembly until they paid up their back assessments. The compromise was cheered by all members, for it ended a year-long crisis that had paralyzed the Assembly. So far, however, only the U.S. has lived up to the bargain. Every suggestion that Russia and France come through with their voluntary payments, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg told the Assembly last week, has been greeted with "thunderous...
...heart from the considerable increase in West German trade with the East, arguing that the way to bring the Berlin Wall tumbling down and to move toward reunification is to revitalize the incipient desire for goods and services behind the rusting Iron Curtain. It was with Bonn's tacit approval that Krupp General Manager Berthold Beitz began reconnoitering Eastern Europe in 1959. Beitz has since signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled since...