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...remain under deep cover, depending on the nature of the country. In London, for example, practically anyone who is interested can learn the identity of the CIA station chief; his arrival was even disclosed in the Manchester Guardian. In Saigon, the station chiefs identity is well known but, by tacit agreement, never publicized by reporters. In politically turbulent countries, the identity of the station chief is a closely
...made more than 3,600 B-52 sorties and dropped 100,000 tons of bombs on that nation at a time when Nixon was publicly proclaiming that its neutrality was being respected. The Administration later contended that the secrecy was necessary to maintain Cambodian Prince Sihanouk's tacit approval of the action, which was aimed at Communist troops in border mountains, not at civilians. The arguments were carried most effectively by New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman and Alabama's Flowers...
...With a tacit bow to the effectiveness of Saigon's counterinsurgency forces in urban areas, the document admits that "our infrastructure has been lost completely. We were seduced by the illusion of peace and became inactive against enemy tricks. We have lost a certain amount of land and population in the Mekong Delta"-estimated by Saigon to be about 20% of the land held by the Communists at the time of the Paris accords...
...surprising fact was not that the government had fallen but that it had lasted as long as it did. Since the October 1972 election, which reduced the Liberal representation in Commons from 155 (an absolute majority) to 109, Trudeau has been able to stay in power only with the tacit support of the socialistic New Democratic Party. In return for N.D.P. backing, the Liberal government was forced to push through Parliament a series of N.D.P.-favored programs, including higher welfare payments, improved benefits for the aged and milk-and bread-price subsidies...
...alcoholism in the world (an estimated 10% to 12% of the population, including some children), and the Soviet Union may not be far behind. Soviet newspapers now blame 60% of their country's murders, holdups and burglaries on that old demon vodka. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave tacit recognition to the problem when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited him recently. Discussing with Kissinger plans for a U.S.-built soft-drink factory in the Soviet Union, Brezhnev mused: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka and more Pepsi-Cola...