Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, if we send representatives, we implicitly accept the CRR's disciplinary authority; we legitimize the body. For years, the student boycott has tainted everything the CRR has done. No false cloak of democracy has obscurred the essential injustice of CRR organization. Nothing has obscured the real power base in "our" University--to the great embarassment of our oligarchs...
...whole idea of Micronesian unity was invented and fostered by the U.S.," explains Peter Rosenblatt, President Carter's representative at the talks. "We take every opportunity that we can to foster the idea, but the Marshallese and Palauan leaders will not accept...
...Marianas, to which Saipan belongs, have 12% of the trust territory's population, but receive 32% of the territorial income. The Marianas also eagerly accept all kinds of federal aid, including free medical care and bulk food grants of commodities like wheat. "It's sort of a welfare state," says silvery Erwin Can-ham, the Marianas' resident commissioner and a former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will return to the U.S. later this month. "If I tried to eliminate the free surplus commodities, I'd have a lynch mob down here...
...Sadat. Said one elated Egyptian official: "Our press already is interpreting Carter's statement as self-determination. The Israelis probably will interpret it differently. But if we can agree on that statement, it will serve a purpose very much like Resolution 242* ambiguous enough so that each can accept it on his own terms but positive enough to form the basis for serious negotiations." Menachem Begin, whom Carter telephoned from Air Force One to report on his Aswan talks, still maintained that his government favored "full autonomy," not self-determination, for the Palestinians. But a high Israeli official said...
...Foreign Ministers' meeting, to be attended also by U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, the Egyptians hope to persuade Begin's government to accept the principle of Palestinian self-determination by 1) offering an extended deadline toward achieving it-"Like maybe saying there could be self-determination after Begin dies," says one Egyptian, and 2) agreeing to demilitarization of the West Bank, thereby assuring Israel that its security will not be threatened...