Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 1971 a Communist coup d'état took place in Sudan. My attitude was firm. I said we condemned it because we would not accept a Communist régime established on our doorstep-in a country sharing our borders. A few days later, however, the coup was foiled and President [Jaafar] Numeiry, having got rid of his enemies, was back in power...
...Well," I said, "I cannot accept it, and indeed reject the Soviet leaders' method in dealing with us. Please convey all I am going to tell you to the Soviet leaders as an official message...
...wrote a cable to President Assad in his capacity as my partner in the war in which I told him I had decided to accept a ceasefire. I put on record, in that telegram, the substance of my stand on this issue-that I was not afraid of a confrontation with Israel but that I would not confront the United States. I would not allow the Egyptian forces or Egypt's strategical targets to be destroyed once again. And I was willing to be brought to book by my people in Egypt and the Arab world, to answer...
...yards, sometimes a few miles, but always advancing. I was really fully prepared to liquidate the Israelis there, but I had to take one risk into consideration, that of possible U.S. intervention. On Dec. 11, 1973, Kissinger came to see me again. I told him, "I cannot accept this way of conducting the negotiations. I am going to liquidate the Israeli Deversoir pocket. What will be the American attitude...
...wives' occasional outbursts of physical punishment and simply hope they blow over. But before long a flurry of wifely fists is part of the domestic routine. Says Family Therapist Norman Paul of Boston: "They think their wives' violence is part of family life. They have come to accept it." Paralyzed by shame and guilt, they are reluctant to seek help from anyone-family, friends, counselors or the cops. Explains Steinmetz: "Police are a symbol of manhood, and it is simply too much to approach a policeman and say, The little woman has just beaten...