Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Organization Man" [Aug. 25] is an outstanding example of factual, in-depth reporting. Please accept my compliments for an objective and accurate description of that elusive enemy, the Viet Cong. The success of our military operations in Viet Nam is dependent in large measure upon the support and confidence of an informed public. Perceptive articles such as this provide a valuable service to the nation and to your reading public...
...third and only tolerable solution, concludes Reischauer, "is to force the other side gradually to reduce the scale of fighting and eventually to accept some sort of reasonable settlement...
...Dictator. For two days, the Negroes haughtily segregated themselves be hind a locked door at the Palmer House. "Black Caucus," declared a sign on the door. "For Blacks Only!!!" When they finally appeared, it was with a splenetic 13-point statement, which they insisted the convention accept or they would secede. The Negroes' demands included 1) Negro membership on all committees, though they made up only about 20% of the delegates; 2) "white civilizing" committees to "humanize the savage and beastlike character of whites" as "exemplified by Lyndon Baines Johnson"; and 3) condemnation of the "im perialistic Zionist...
...President, Thieu now gives every sign that this time he intends to be No. 1 in fact as well as in title. Whether Ky can gracefully accept Thieu's dominance remains to be seen, and a balky Vice President could well prove the most difficult problem that the President will have to face. Ky wanted the top job himself and openly campaigned for it while Thieu went around quietly gathering support among the other generals and officers. It was only after an emotional two-day showdown meeting of the ruling military group that Thieu forced Ky to stand aside...
...same, Author Mayer has come away with more faith in the law than many lawyers. Says he: "The rest of us put up with the arrogance of the lawyers-accept their, rigidities, their partial perceptions, their occasional corruption, their portentous self-praise, their cant, their infernal waste of time -not because we care about the niceties or even the creative accomplishments of the legal system, but because we sense, we hope,' that the law seeks justice...