Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true Christian could disagree that today's homosexuals must be granted the same God-given "rights" that their forefathers in Sodom and Gomorrah enjoyed: principally, the right to a speedy death by fire. The argument that it is a Christian virtue to accept homosexuals as "brothers in Christ" is a liberal theological crock...
Apart from the generals, Begin's Cabinet is mostly lackluster. Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich, for instance, is not an economist but a manufacturer of optical goods. He may well have a hard time coping with Israel's rampaging inflation and convincing the country to accept a controversial Likud program to counter it with planned unemployment...
There were rumors of a military coup, but after a tense meeting, the conservative Army Superior Council agreed to accept the government's decision "for patriotism's sake." Exiles were given passports to return home. Carrillo led the way, followed by others, including La Pasionaria from Moscow and Communist Poet Rafael Alberti from Rome. This spring Suárez's government legalized trade unions and restored the right of workers to strike. Finally, it reestablished diplomatic relations, severed since 1939, with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...about a "Yom Kippur War syndrome," recalling that in 1973 Cairo was able to surprise the Israelis partly because the Egyptian army had been pressing its maneuvers forward little by little and holding them frequently. Says a top Danish military official: "We must be careful that we do not accept the repetition of the unusual as normal...
...that keep echoing Golda. Blacks will have the vote in their homelands, he insists, but not in white South Africa. "The blacks came here to get jobs, which they need. That is enough. We don't also have to give them political rights. They understand this when they accept the jobs. They will never be part of our Parliament." In other words, the blacks in the "white homeland" are "residents" from other countries, much like the guest workers in Western Europe (a comparison frequently made...