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Gorbachev also advanced a host of more immediate proposals. In tacit recognition of the link between battlefield nuclear weapons and conventional arms, he called for a speeding up of the negotiations on troop reductions in Europe that have been dragging on in Vienna for twelve years, and matched a Western concession made last December with one of his own on verification. He proposed an agreement on chemical weapons that moved beyond Moscow's previous willingness to destroy only existing stockpiles and called for dismantling production facilities as well. He also extended for three months a Soviet moratorium on weapons tests...
...sworn enemy of Israel, Jerusalem views the drawn-out war as a useful drain on the resources of Iraq, a closer and more dangerous foe. Baram insisted that the Israeli "defense establishment" was aware of his activities. But the Israeli Defense Ministry quickly denied any "direct, indirect or tacit connection," and when Baram telephoned the Israeli embassy in Washington to ask for help, Israeli Military and Defense Attaché Uri Simhony told him curtly, "Buddy, you better get yourself the best legal advice available...
...Senate Intelligence Committee, said U.S. officials were looking the other way when arms deals skirted the edge of the law. Said he: "If Americans are led to go into Nicaragua, either directly or indirectly, either by a wink or shrug, or by somehow being given the idea they have tacit approval, then we have very real problems...
...borrowed courage can vanish when one changes from witness to participant, as Lloyd Parry learns during his reckoning in East Timor, the book's most gripping section. After the embattled province votes for its independence from Jakarta in 1999, Lloyd Parry watches as anti-independence militias, seemingly with the tacit approval of the Indonesian army, wreak havoc. But this time he's more than a spectator?the militias violently turn on journalists, forcing them to hole up in the United Nations' overcrowded compound. Inside, terrified, he listens to machine guns firing, grenades exploding and refugees wailing. He imagines rockets bursting...
...bunny ears, a bikini top, and lifeguard thong,” he says of his days in Straus A. “I’d gotten the reputation of being that asshole.” Despite Nick’s offbeat choice of entryway attire, he received tacit encouragement from above. “As ashamed as my proctor [Zeev Ben-Schar] was of me,” he says, “I think he got a kick...