Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overall public response is not particularly enthusiastic--either here or in other parts of the country where similar programs are underway. Parents generally don't think too highly of their kids going to prison, even if just for a few hours, and the criminal justice system has yet to accept the idea that prisoners can serve as constructive role models for youthful offenders. The prison bureaucracy in Massachusetts tolerates the program at Walpole but isn't particularly eager to spread the idea to other institutions. Neither is the Department of Youth Services...
...administration has insisted that Israel must be willing to relinquish control of large parts of the occupied territories and, more important, accept direct representation of the Palestinian refugees in any Geneva peace negotiations, and that the Arabs and Palestinians, for their part, must be willing to recognize and guarantee Israel's right to exist. This insistence reflects a commendable willingness to confront the most basic--and hence controversial--issues involved in the Middle East dispute. Indeed, as all the parties involved have pointed out, a failure to reach an understanding on these questions and establish a mutually acceptable framework within...
Expectations are that the two generals will quickly confer with a third, General Peter Walls, commander of Rhodesia's 45,000-man security forces. Rhodesia's whites generally accept majority rule as inevitable, but they oppose dismantling the white-led military and police. The cease-fire plan, however, calls for a merger of Walls' forces with guerrillas who owe allegiance to Black Nationalists Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. Thus prospects for an early peace in Rhodesia depend heavily on negotiations about security that involve three widely respected but relatively unknown soldiers. Brief profiles of the three...
...skull raised a new problem. While anthropologists could accept the idea of man having evolved from Australopithecus, the evidence seemed to show that Homo habilis lived at the same time as his less advanced cousins. If so, could he have descended from them? Also, if several species of pre-men lived side by side, which one was really...
...first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy as a teenager. But the bishops instead chose Theodosius. He comes from an Orthodox family in the church's Pennsylvania heartland and thus would be easier for older members to accept than a convert like Dmitri...