Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southeast Asia." His letter then proceeded to enunciate the unvarying set of preconditions to peace talks that Hanoi laid down last April. Once again Ho insisted that the "most correct way" to end the war was for "the U.S. imperialists" to withdraw their troops, abandon their ally and accept the Viet Cong's program for communization of South Viet...
Said Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a press conference: "We are not interested in saving face, but in saving Viet Nam. There has not been and there is not now any indication from Hanoi that they are prepared to accept the self-determination and independent existence of their neighbors as free countries." Under the circumstances, the peacemakers could hardly feel blessed...
...Normally, Florida's Governors serve for four years and may not succeed themselves. However, the Democratic-controlled legislature persuaded the electorate to accept a rules change for 1964 so that gubernatorial and presidential elections would no longer be held in the same year. Burns got the right to run for a full four-year term...
...Originally we ask nothing of the teenager," explained Dunne. "He comes to us strictly for a job." "But once he is involved, we can provide the other resources which he might not have wished to accept because of his pride" before...
...liberation" as a revolt of the agrarian classes against the cities which dominate them. Ky has issued several statements about reform in South Vietnam, but no action has been taken. Again according to Reston, "the Vietnamese leaders are willing neither to take the leadership nor to accept American leadership in this exercise...