Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic sanctions voted by the U.N. in 1966 and 1968 to isolate the white Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith after it refused to share power with the black majority. The Administration wanted no change in U.S. policy. It views the sanctions as a powerful lever to prod Smith to accept an Anglo-American plan for a comprehensive settlement. This plan calls for participation by all black factions, guerrillas based outside the country as well as moderate nationalists inside. But there has been a growing feeling in Congress that the Administration's commitment to this formula does not pay enough attention...
...practical arguments for volunteering is that it will reduce, by many ergs, the amount of work that bureaucracies must do. Thus, there is the sweetness of having somewhat thwarted the impersonal state. Says Brown Assistant Charles Baldwin: "Proposition 13 will be the real test of the individual citizen to accept the responsibility...
...considered foreigners in the West Bank and Gaza. It is not a question of Arab sovereignty. It was a [British] mandate, and it was taken by force by the Jordanians and the Egyptians, and then it was retaken by force by us [in 1967]. So we do not accept their claim that it is sovereign Arab land...
...Dayan: We have agreements and disagreements with the opposition. The Labor Party does not accept a Palestinian state; they would not accept going back to the old [1967] lines; they would not accept negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization; they do not want to desert the settlements. They created settlements on the Golan Heights, in the Jordan Valley and in the Sinai. So we're in good company. As for the solution, they say they are for a territorial compromise [in the West Bank] but a meaningful one. If such a proposal is brought up by the other party...
...period, we are going to pay more than half the price the Arabs are asking for? a down payment, a very substantial one?abolishing the military regime. I believe any Arab country, if it knows the other alternative is just to go on with things as they are, should accept that. We are not ready to make a precommitment. After five years, God knows where Sadat will be, where Begin will be, and who is going to be the President of the United States...