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Take a hard case, Lithuania. For the months of the gulf crisis, until Gorbachev went free-lancing with his peace plan, there seemed to be a tacit U.S.-Soviet understanding: the U.S.S.R. would stay within the anti-Iraq coalition, and the U.S. would go easy on criticizing Moscow's repression of Lithuania. Is such a deal conscionable...
...just out of Kuwait but off this planet. That goes for all the active combatants and many interested bystanders as well. The government in Tehran hopes that someone other than Saddam will eventually present the claim check for the Iraqi warplanes now parked in Iran. The Israelis have a tacit deal with Washington: they stay out of the fighting, and the U.S. rids the neighborhood of its No. 1 menace...
After Mikhail Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II in Rome last December, he gave tacit recognition to Ukrainian Catholics. They have since formed at least 1,600 parishes, many of them using formerly Catholic buildings seized from Orthodox congregations. Talks between the Catholics and the Moscow patriarchate over the property disputes have broken down twice this year...
...erotic energy. Carolyn recalls he was not an especially sensitive lover. Sex, it appears, was less a private act between two people than a plot element in the crowded drama he lived from day to day. Carolyn played her part when Jack Kerouac moved in. With her husband's tacit urging, she became the novelist's lover. "I provided for whichever of them was in residence according to his individual preferences," she writes of that arrangement...
...statement saying "the total price" he would have to pay for Adidas "will make all those who doubt our financial ability look ridiculous." Some reports put the figure at $450 million. Tapie's bid for Adidas could also benefit from the French government's unofficial blessing. With the tacit approval of President Francois Mitterrand, Tapie in 1988 won a seat in the National Assembly, running as an independent candidate...