Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a role by Sol Linowitz, chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (and a member of Time Inc.'s board). After a long talk with Carter at the White House, several calls from other Administration officials, and two days of personal deliberation, Donovan decided to accept...
...equally intrigued by and perceptive about events at home and abroad. In recent speeches he has expressed his pride in America's past and, despite present problems, his optimism about the future. "One secret of America's strength is that two strains-rebelliousness and willingness to accept orders-run strongly through our national life," he says. "From the tension between these tendencies I think part of the American dynamism is created." He has contended that "our failure to achieve civilized race relations is America's most serious social weakness"; he has described the "decline of American productivity...
...power is viewed in Europe as shifting against us, and we can no longer ignore it." During a break in the hearing, Haig disclosed that "as of today, I could not go along with SALT II." While expressing firm doubts about the pact, he indicated that he might accept it if its ratification would mark "the turnaround of a perceived period of drift in U.S. leadership" and a commitment for a larger strategic arms budget...
...least 1 million more people may soon be joining the exodus, principally from Viet Nam. That massive an outpouring would completely swamp the already overtaxed resources of the two countries. It was Thailand's forced repatriation of refugees from Cambodia last month and Malaysia's refusal to accept any more boat people that prompted the Geneva conference...
...election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...