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Welcome Presence. It is possible that the cagey Prince gave the riots his tacit approval as a way of putting pressure on the Communists to reduce their forces in Cambodia. Sihanouk gave some support to that theory in an interview in Paris with TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini. Preparing to depart for home via Moscow and Peking, he said that he would ask the Russians and Chinese "to exercise friendly pressure on the Viet Cong and Vietnamese not to infiltrate our borders." Unless the Communist powers do so, Sihanouk went on, the result will be the "Americanization of Cambodia." Sihanouk...
Fifth Socialist Government. Those fears were further eased when the Socialists openly rejected support from Austria's quarrelsome Communist Party; some Socialist Party members claim that tacit acceptance of Communist support in 1966 cost the party over 30,000 votes...
They pointed to the University's subsequent decision to sign two contracts which called for 19-23 per cent minority workers on construction sitesas a tacit admission of its racism...
...exchange for being released from further risks and liability from parents' suits related to thalidomide, Chemie Grünenthal offered the 100 million marks for "the children." The company did not specify which children, in the hope of avoiding even tacit admission that any had been specifically damaged by thalidomide. In fact, no one was certain how many children would be covered by the proposed settlement. Some put the number of surviving thalidomide victims at only 2,000, which would mean an average settlement of about $13,000 each. Other counts put the number at more than...
...serious attention from Moyers. Like others he flunked Agnew for accuracy. But at the same time he chided newsmen who accused Agnew of intimidation. Moyers also warned both sides of the fence about the camaraderie in Washington among those who make the news and those who report it. "This tacit allegiance between the government and the press," Moyers declared, "is far more harmful to the public than the adversary relationship...