Word: accept
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...unexpected crisis over the government's handling of the May soccer riot in Brussels that left 38 dead in a clash between English and Italian fans. Six Liberal Party ministers quit after Minister of the Interior Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation, but in a rare move by the country's constitutional monarch, King Baudouin refused to accept it. The King's reason: elections would have been in August, when most Belgians are away on vacation...
...feuding parties agreed to work together until new elections can be held on Oct. 13. Martens had survived previous challenges to his severe economic austerity program and his willingness to accept the deployment of U.S. cruise missiles. The coalition's soccer squabble could open the way for the opposition Socialists, who would probably reverse those policies...
...white political power. Botha conceded that ways would have to be found to allow blacks to live legally and permanently in the townships they have long inhabited. But he also reaffirmed his commitment to the homelands concept. Nor did he ever speak of full citizenship for blacks or accept the idea of a house in Parliament for blacks. Most important, Botha made it clear that the principle of one man, one vote was not negotiable under any circumstances...
...somehow they must find a way to live together. Says Ntatho Motlana, a black physician in Soweto: "It's a sort of love-hate relationship. But when you get down to it, the relationship exists." A number of African leaders, including Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, have said that they accept the white South Africans as Africans. "They cannot be pushed over Table Mountain into the sea," Kaunda once said...
...that reservoir? Even if a majority of South African whites were prepared to accept Momberg's ideas about power sharing, which they are not at present, it is by no means clear whether it would be acceptable to a majority of blacks. With the current wave of police actions and arrests, a familiar pattern is beginning to emerge. The United Democratic Front, founded in 1983 to organize broad-based multiracial opposition to the government, has revealed some sympathy for the outlawed and exiled African National Congress. One by one, U.D.F. leaders have been put under surveillance or detained, actions that...