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Aside from the approved negotiations by which criminals are induced to testify, to plead guilty, to surrender themselves, or to tip off the police, there is a degree of accommodation between the police and the ciiminals--tacit or explicit understandings analogous to what in military affairs would be called the limitation of war, the control of armament, and spheres of influence...
...peace." United Nations Secretary General U Thant did not quite agree: "Any atomic explosion anywhere is to be regretted." Japan lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense of the word a nuclear power...
...only through the newspapers or perhaps Life magazine. To most of them, living in an all-white suburb, Watts meant violence, a pocket of black men seething with discontent, waiting for another incident to spark a week of looting and burning. Behind the curiosity of my neghbors was the tacit question, "Were they...
Despite the violence and the complaints of many who feel that a priest has no business meddling so deeply in civil affairs. Archbishop William Cousin has refused to call off Father Groppi. He has even, through an editorial in the local Catholic newspaper, given his tacit approval. Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier and at least one judge have quietly dropped Eagle membership since Groppi began his crusade, and last week some 40 other clergymen, from nearly every faith, joined him in opposing the discriminatory clause...
...thing going for them: they never carry firearms in the course of ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the cops will not shoot. Though only 24 British policemen have been killed in the last 55 years, the tacit truce between cops and crooks is occasionally shattered-as in the fatal shooting of three policemen last week on a London street...