Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture you published of the student with a stomach full of bullets will probably cause few of your readers the grief it deserves, and the casual tone of your reporting exemplifies the attitude with which many Americans will view this event. It is hard to believe that people will accept the maiming and possible murder of youth under the pretense of justice; certainly the students could have committed no crime equal to this...
...among other things, Viet Cong participation in future elections and thereafter in a future government. Thieu has gone as far as that, although only on the difficult condition that the Viet Cong stop calling themselves Communists. In the speech, Nixon also hinted that the U.S. would be willing to accept Communist participation in an interim government that would rule the country pending elections. That could mean something very close to a coalition government. More troubling to Thieu than any specific language may have been the President's insistence that he was open to almost any suggestion the other side...
...about eight months ahead of the way they talk in public. Thieu today expresses his appreciation of the political facts of life in the U.S. and of the necessity for serious negotiations with the Communists." Short of outright coalition, which the U.S. does not now advocate anyway, he might accept one of the other formulas that have been proposed. One solution, for example, might be to let each side retain the areas it now controls while a neutral commission supervises balloting. Another might be an international commission to run the government while both sides compete at the polls. Still another...
...individual refuses to choose one of the options, then "We would assume that he will accept the findings of the Committee of 15," Freund said...
...promptly as possible, by telephone or letter, whether you would prefer our committee to establish the facts on the basis of the relevant evidence submitted to it on May 27, 1969, or would prefer to elect (for purposes of the inquiry by the Committee of Five) to accept the findings of fact of the panel of the Committee of Fifteen...