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...Western law experts, the most dangerous defect in Soviet legal thinking is the tacit assumption by Russian courts that a defendant has been brought to trial because he is guilty, and that courtroom testimony at best can serve only to mitigate a sentence. The Soviet attitude stems largely from the fact that the kingpin of the system is not an impartial judge but a procurator, a sort of super district attorney and Big Brother rolled into one. As the state's No. 1 law enforcer he conducts investigations, orders arrests, serves as prosecuting attorney, keeps an eye on courts...
...Well, the Buddhists vaguely ex plained, Huong's government, which is made up mostly of nonpolitical civil servants, is "not revolutionary" and contains "vestiges of the Diem regime." Saigon's draft-exempt students and microscopic "political parties," with the Buddhists' tacit approval, began holding meetings and demanded a government reshuffle. Huong refused, explaining: "They all want my job. If I had satisfied all their demands, my Cabinet would have numbered over a hundred." Then he Buddhists' appealed political to the bureau, head Thich of the Tarn Chau, and reported, "It was like talking to a deaf...
...McNamara must have known, all this begged the fact that the last previous civilian South Viet Nam government, that of Ngo Dinh Diem, was overthrown by a military junta with at least the tacit connivance of the U.S., that the new government is the shakiest anywhere in the world, that militarily the South Viet Nam war has been going from worse to worst, and that any expression of optimism was pure whistling in the dark...
Bellotti's speech highlighted an organizational meeting at which Young Democrats also endorsed all Massachusetts Democratic candidates, staged a mild revolt against the leadership, and voted against tacit approval of Noel Day's Congressional campaign...
Brimming Heart. For Nasser, the very talks with Feisal were tacit admission that his forces were not really scoring ringing victory after ringing victory, a startling retreat from the extravagant claims he had been making in the past. Nasser also backed down from his pretense that the Yemen war was caused solely by infiltrators from Saudi Arabia and the British colony of Aden. In their official communiqué the two leaders promised to 1) cooperate fully to solve the existing differences between the various factions in Yemen, 2) work together in preventing armed clashes in Yemen, and 3) reach...