Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your story on Puerto Rico in your May 4 issue, the implication is made that upon accepting that a plebiscite be held on commonwealth-statehood-independence status, after opposing that additional plebiscite for seven years, I have changed my mind as to the fact that statehood is economically a complete reality for Puerto Rico. My acceptance of an additional plebiscite now is based on the following fact: the constant debate on status, which is unreal to most Puerto Ricans but which may seem real to persons outside of Puerto Rico, is approaching a point where it is beginning...
...Karl Marx or even of Martin Luther King. But last week in Florida, Columnist Henry Balch thundered in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 100,000): "As soon as you pick up the book, you realize these rabbits are integrated. One of the techniques of brainwashing is conditioning minds to accept what the brainwashers want accepted." In Alabama, State Senator E. O. Eddins agreed: "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned." Off it went from the regular shelves of the Alabama Public Library Service Division, and onto the closed shelf reserved for works on integration or those considered scatological...
Minimum price the West was prepared to accept for going on to the summit was at least provisional Russian agreement to respect the present status of West Berlin. There were signs that the Russians might be willing. Fortnight ago Gromyko, in private conversation with Herter, came close to disavowing the May 27 deadline for Western evacuation of Berlin set by Khrushchev last November. And from Moscow last week came a pointed announcement that Nikita himself planned to be away in Albania on deadline...
Last week in Beirut, in a marked break from past refugee attitudes, four Palestinians formed a committee to petition Arab countries to allow them to accept compensation from Israel for their lost lands, thus giving up all hope of returning. Not many years ago for any Arab to make such a proposal would have been to invite assassination...
...valley at the head of his unarmed troops. When he was searched, the Red leader angrily cried that it was an "un-Buddhist" action. It was also a valuable one, for on his person was found a letter from Red Prince Souphanouvong ordering him not to accept integration until after the next general election...