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...indicate that his family had been quite wealthy before the war. Yet there was no doubt that he too was earning a very adequate income. Another young doctor later explained that professionals were so badly needed now that the state not only paid good salaries but had dropped the tacit requirement of earlier days that professionals be good Communists...
...cold war did not exist. This is Berlin's Air Safety Center, where the West advises East of its flights up the three air corridors over Communist territory from West Germany. The system is supposed to avoid accidents; in fact, it neatly ties the Soviets to tacit recognition of the West's rights to fly the disputed airlanes. Many Western officers think Russia will one day walk out of the Safety Center, leaving the Western planes to fly through the corridors unannounced, and mingle dangerously with Communist aircraft in the area. Then the West will have its signal...
Consensus is that disappointed Labor Premier Einar Gerhardsen will soon resign, but that the Labor Party will manage to hang on. Likely compromise: Laborite Nils Langhelle, president of the Storting, will take over a minority government with tacit conservative support. One thing was certain: in view of the pressing problem of Common Market entry and Norway's vital role in NATO, neither Labor nor the other old-line parties want to give the fellow-traveling upstarts a chance to play the balance-of-power game...
...public schools and no longer recognized as an official language. Last year Austria took the Tyroleans' claims to the U.N., which directed Austria and Italy to get together and settle the problem. Two tries earlier this year failed, but in preparation for a third try later this month, tacit agreement had been reached on giving the German minority a larger hand in internal affairs...
...striking teachers menacingly massed in front of the Parliament building in Teheran fortnight ago, the Shah personally cautioned his tough police to proceed gently. "One martyred student or teacher is all the Communists require to start a revolution," he said gloomily-a tacit admission of the explosive state of his nation. But in the scuffling down on Parliament square a police major lost his head, pulled his revolver, killed one teacher and wounded three others. There was no revolution. Yet students and teachers rioted bloodily in Teheran, fought hand-to-hand skirmishes with police, paraded the dead...