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...says a Western diplomat. Indeed, Chad has requested that the U.S. and other Western powers, who withdrew their representatives when the fighting broke out last year, reopen their embassies as soon as possible. But many countries appear reluctant to do so because they do not wish to give even tacit approval to a Gadaffi takeover. The Organization of African Unity has called on Libya to withdraw its troops so that an agreement worked out in 1979, calling for fresh elections supervised by a pan-African peacekeeping force, can be carried...
...movie which, at its outset, promises to be a wicked satire of the TV age, filled with subtle humor, razor-sharp ridicule of American pop culture, and ingenious manipulation of every tiny comic detail of insipid domestic life. Unfortunately, Shrinking Woman--in its last half hour--reneges on its tacit deal with the audience, degenerating from incisive social satire to the silly comedy-adventure shenanigans of a Gene Wilder--Richard Pryor movie. Director Joel Schumacher and scriptwriter Jane Wagner let the film slowly slide into the quicksand of banality, and they rely on the immeasurable talents of their star...
...encouraging these organizations have not been substantiated. However no attempt has been made to restrict their mobility in and out of the US or to interfere with their activities. Their mobility and their links with the US--it seems reasonable to assume--could not be maintained without the tacit consent (or practical incompetence) of at least four agencies: INS, CIA, FBI and US Customs...
...palpable foreshadowing of Reagan's foreign policy, Kirkpatrick said recently that she believes the U.S. should continue to provide military aid to El Salvador, where in the past month seven Americans have been murdered--with the tacit condoning if not outright participation of the rightist government's continued aid for the El Salvador regime in the face of the unrelieved political repression and economic exploitation there is bad enough; with the views of Kirkpatrick put into practice under a Reagan administration, this senseless approach is likely to be duplicated across the globe...
...Yalta conference in 1945, preparing for the final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...