Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contending that more requests for Carter's vote-getting help are reaching the White House than he can accept, the President's advisers are employing a loyalty test as one means of deciding which candidates to aid. The results have been compiled in a large black notebook, with computer print-outs that detail the voting record of each Senate and House member. While those with poor records of support for Carter's programs are not ruled out of his campaign plans, they are assigned a low priority...
...Democrats really want or need Jimmy Carter's help? Opinions vary. Exclaims Texas Congressman Jim Wright, Democratic House floor leader: "For heaven's sake! Of course, the President of the United States will be in demand−more invitations than he can accept...
When his American hosts argued that Israel should adopt a more flexible attitude, Dayan replied that the U.S. must accept the fact that Begin is too committed to the concept of "Eretz Israel" for him ever to accept withdrawal from the West Bank. Nonetheless, said one American diplomat, "Dayan the pragmatist emerged. He told us, in effect, 'Let's not get hung up on 242 or on formulas, let's worry about what happens next.' " American officials took some encouragement from one Dayan admission: Israel now recognizes that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat cannot be expected...
Dayan's visit did not, however, narrow the U.S.-Israeli disagreement over the wording of the declaration of principles. In the end, Israel may accept some version of the phrase recognizing the Palestinians' "right to participation in the determination of their own future," but it still rejects such phrases as "Palestinian problem in all its aspects" or "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" on the ground that such words imply a Palestinian state on the West Bank−a concept that is anathema to Jerusalem. All in all, the two sides remained uncomfortably far apart...
...justify our foreign policy by arguments other than the fear of Cuban military intervention. We must make clear to other countries that we will not be blackmailed by Cuban troops or by Soviet arms. Whatever arguments can be advanced for conducting our foreign policy, we will not accept the proposition that if we do not accede to the arguments of individual countries they will then call in the Cubans, or the Soviets will then send arms...