Word: acceptance
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Most of the candidates accept this argument. But Abzug seems emotionally unable to settle for that. Though she pledges administrative reform, and acknowledges the need to keep business and attract new firms through partial tax exemptions and expansion of industrial parks, she also argues that New York must restore such services as free undergraduate tuition at City University when resources permit...
...Court began hearing arguments on the case. To union officials, it is a crucial test of the government's support for the trade unions. In a characteristic British compromise, Parliament did not empower ACAS to compel employers to recognize unions; ACAS can merely recommend compliance. If the court accepts Ward's basic contention that he cannot be forced to accept APEX, union officials fear there will be a host of legal challenges to ACAS recommendations. Says APEX Official John Wall: "If the court rules that ACAS has no teeth, there will be hell raised within the Trades Union...
...white rule in Rhodesia. For years black nationalists have been divided between relative moderates, such as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, and the more extreme forces, which now call themselves the Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. The moderates, while willing to accept a gradual transfer of power, have also been insisting that black Rhodesians be allowed to choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville...
...resolution once again underlined the folly of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's policy. Had it not been for his stubborn refusal all along to accept majority rule, he could have transferred power to the moderates some years ago. Now it is probably too late, although there is speculation in Salisbury that Smith might propose surrendering power to a predominantly black coalition government that would include Sithole, Muzorewa and a number of local chiefs...
After all the squabbling, the fact remains that the Carter Administration has made clear its impatience with Jerusalem as well as its conviction that, in return for peace. Israel must withdraw from virtually all conquered territories and accept some kind of home for the Palestinians. That leaves a lot to be negotiated, including what sort of peace and when, but the basic U.S. position seems sound and inevitable...