Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While some 300 Roxbury parents are scraping the bottom of the barrel to bus their children out of ghetto schools, the School Committee coolly sanctions overcrowding in Roxbury--and in white Charlestown. While white neighborhood schools accept Operation Exodus peacefully, the Hicks alliance refuses to heed this lesson...
...countenance a Communist South Vietnam or the creation of any coalition regime in Saigon which might lead to a Communist seizure of power." The government seems to ask of Hanoi that it bring an end to guerrilla activities in the South, agree to a permanently divided Vietnam, and accept a government in the South with no Communist influence. By quitely insisting on these conditions, it makes the prospect of negotiations meaningless for Hanoi and the Viet Cong, who have fought 20 years for exactly what Washington would have them renounce...
...only way to avoid this long and senseless war is to achieve settlement through negotiation. And the only way to reach settlement, as suggested above, is for America to accept the possibility of a Communist Vietnam. Specifically the United States should take the following steps...
...voting rolls on the ground that the new federal law is an unconstitutional infringement on state power to regulate-elections. To end this "grave frustration," the Government seeks a swift Supreme Court decision- hopefully before the South's coming spring primaries. Before that happens, the court must accept the case...
...efforts to have the Warsaw Convention rewritten, the U.S. announced that it will unilaterally denounce the treaty next May unless changes are made. This would leave the heirs of crash victims free to sue in U.S. courts any airline that services the U.S., provided the courts were willing to accept the jurisdiction. Since U.S. withdrawal would both seriously disrupt treaty proceedings and put foreign lines in for a lot of potential trouble, the airlines are anxious to make some adjustment to placate...