Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Accept U.S. experts in all major governmental departments to help untangle the current bureaucratic mess...
...floor last week at the U.N. General Assembly. With their motives ranging from fellow-Communism to "realism," in favor of seating Red China were: Cuba, the Eastern European satellites, Yugoslavia, U.A.R., Sweden, Ceylon, Indonesia, Ghana and Burma. But some states were troubled. Nigeria's Jaja Wachuku could not accept the expulsion of Nationalist China as a "condition" for the admission of Red China, since the Nationalist government "has under it 11 million people" and is a U.S. ally, so that any attempt to conquer it could lead to a threat of war. Wachuku also noted that there...
...vested interest in the existing military competition have promoted it through effective means (lobbying, public relations programs, political pressure), qualified dissent has gone unpublicized. People who have found the unilateralists politically irresponsible in calling for an immediate and absolute resolution of the nuclear threat, but who could not accept the program of the arms race lobbyists, have had little political influence. Tocsin may speak for much of this group, particularly the students among them, when it makes the obvious point that military spending and thinking does not speed this society toward its expressed goals...
...Jordanian government has asked Harvard to accept a restriction. But those who proudly oppose Harvard's participation on this ground should be prepared to look with equal pride upon the refugees living in hovels upon a bare subsistence diet. They might remember that these conditions will persist indefinitely unless projects like Jarba succeed. Yet if the project does succeed, the opponents of Jarba will have the privilege of saying, "I oppose this: it was built with un-Jewish labor...
...therefore urge Dean Leighton, Miss Taylor, and other Project Jarba officials not to accept this political propaganda as a valid explanation, much less excuse, of a position which is insulting not only to American Jews but to the American Constitution as well. David Monroe Miller...