Word: tacit
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...bring the summit off, he has at least a fighting chance to convince the leftist leaders-who are, after all, under pressure from Russia-to listen to reason. "We Jordanians might be in a position to influence their thinking," he says. If not, Hussein intends to ask for their tacit consent for Jordan's coming to terms with Israel alone. If even their neutrality is denied him, Hussein may just go ahead without the consent of his fellow Arab leaders. "If it is absolutely impossible to reach agreement," says a close aide of Hussein's, "then each country...
...Russians began threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, thereby isolating and possibly dooming West Berlin. The threat to Berlin, repeated in 1960 and 1962, was defused by U.S. troop reinforcements. The building of the Wall in 1961 to choke off the flow of escapees was tacit admission of failure...
...followed in much of the U.S. Now the anachronism is under heavy fire. In Miranda v. Arizona last June, the Supreme Court held that confessions from persons in custody are inadmissible unless the suspect was clearly informed of his rights to silence and to counsel before being questioned. Can tacit admissions to the police survive that holding...
...stealing from his employer, Bethlehem Construction Worker Joseph Dravecz had stood mute when police read his accuser's statement to him. Dravecz was convicted largely on the basis of his silence. By a vote of 6 to 1, though, the high court reversed the conviction and voided the tacit-admission rule in Pennsylvania...
...defendant "could not be made a self-accusing witness by coerced answers," wrote Justice Michael Musmanno for the court, "he should not be made a witness against himself by unspoken, assumed answers. A direct confession unwillingly given is a coerced confession. A tacit admission is still an unwilling performance. The decisions of :he Supreme Court of the United States have, in effect, shattered the tacit-admission rule. Whatever may be left of the rule after the enfilading fire of the Supreme Court is here overruled...