Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, on the other. The chief failing of the Smith settlement is that its terms are unacceptable to the Patriotic Front leaders, who do not believe that it truly establishes majority rule in Rhodesia; hence they have vowed to continue fighting and accept Soviet and Cuban aid if necessary. Washington and London are pressing for a plan under which a British resident commissioner, with the help of U.N. peace-keeping forces, would run a transition government and supervise elections in which all parties would participate...
...colleagues (sarcastically described by some observers as "the gang of four") that the Rhodesians had nothing to lose by attending a round-table meeting. Vance reportedly argued that the U.N. might be prepared to lift its economic sanctions against Rhodesia, at least partly, if the Salisbury regime would accept a U.N. supervisory force during the transition...
...party thinks I should stay on, I will again accept that responsibility. But if the party believes that the role should go to someone else, I will return to the base, my party card in my pocket, and work once again as a militant for the victory of socialism and of Communism...
...public may only grudgingly accept what it gets on television, but television does get the crowd vote. So if you want to appeal to tastes that are more individual than mass, go to magazines. This is familiar Madison Avenue doctrine, but nowadays at long last it's working to the advantage of magazines, and with some peculiar results...
...film's failure stems from the desperate seriousness with which it regards its subject. It keeps insisting that Jimmy J.'s behavior is a sign of anti-bourgeois sensitivity rather than cretinism. This error is deepened by making him and his friends college-age. One might possibly accept this nonsense if the actors were young teenagers...