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...actions throughout the year seem to have been in direct contradiction of the laws that supposedly bind it. The CIA is carrying on what amounts to a war with Nicaragua, without regulation, without government input other than the interests of the executive, and with what seems to be a tacit understanding between the bureau head and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
...speech last week, Khomeini urged his troops not to return home to celebrate the Iranian new year, which begins on March 21. This could have been a tacit admission that large numbers of "volunteers" have refused to participate in human-wave attacks and are taking any opportunity to desert the war zone. Many of them were lured to the front after being told that they would become part of a reserve corps for the defense of Iranian cities in event of an emergency and that they were needed to march in the giant parade to celebrate the fifth anniversary...
...Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz continued to insist before Congress that the U.S. was willing to lend a hand in achieving a political solution in Lebanon. While Shultz spoke, the number of U.S. warships stationed off the shores of Beirut was dwindling from about 20 to twelve. In tacit recognition of their impotence, Shultz and various Congressmen traded barbs over the American policy failure in Lebanon, contributing heat but no light to that country's future...
...representative to the ACSR, said this week. Convisser pointed to South African spending on education, which is 14 to 15 times higher for white children than for nonwhite, as indicative of the broad discrimination that he claims the principles do nothing to alleviate. "They provide a cover for continued tacit American support of the South African government," he added...
...claimed that Blacks and whites serving together would reduce our defense capability. Blacks as a group were told to put the interests of the nation before their own claims to full citizenship. Eventually these arguments were rejected; it's about time people, including Harvard administrators and faculty, stop their tacit consent of anti-gay bigotry and discrimination...