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...apathetics, 35% as pragmatists, 10% as hawks. Chicago, where every student feels obliged to have an opinion, splits roughly in half over the war. But when Vietniks there tried to get the student body to protest the war and back an intelligence-insulting petition accusing the U.S. of "tacit or active collaboration in the use of torture and other war crimes," a student referendum rejected the proposal...
Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin of Baltimore charged tonight that "Barry Goldwater reached a tacit understanding with the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society that he would vote against the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 in exchange for their support...
...pushed out, the Ibos will come and dominate the place." His followers characterize Owegbe as nothing more than a masonic society: one describes it as a "group of Odd Fellows." The Oba himself, 66-year-old Akenzua II, at first opposed Owegbe, now gives it his tacit support and maintains inside his palace one of the most impressive juju shrines in Benin...
Risky Affair. The new measures were a tacit admission by Labor of what Britain's foreign critics have been saying right along: its previous steps, including higher taxes for consumers, lower taxes for exporters and a 10% surcharge on imports, had been inadequate. Indeed, the latest moves were prompted partly by fear that if there is another pound crisis like last November's, some of the nations that anted up $3 billion to bail out Britain then might not be eager to rescue Britain again. For Labor, which governs by a three-vote majority, the new deflationary steps...
Though Wilson's scheme had the backing of the U.S. and at least tacit support from 16 Commonwealth members, there was more than a little doubt that the mission would get under way next month as Wilson hoped. Even if the Russians ultimately agree to the team's visit, Peking and Hanoi probably will not. Last April, when Wilson's emissary, Patrick Gordon Walker, set off on a similar mission, they would not even receive...