Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background: During the negotiations leading up to the Helsinki agreement, the Western powers induced Moscow to accept the so-called Basket III clauses, pledging a free flow of people and information. In addition, the agreement contained a sweeping declaration to respect human rights. The Soviets complied in exchange for things they wanted: the Basket I and II declarations on military, economic and technological cooperation. The Russians evidently thought no one would hold them to their pledges. In Belgrade, the U.S. delegation, headed by Albert Sherer, a former ambassador to Czechoslovakia, is determined to prevent the Soviets from sliding...
Some U.S. diplomats predicted that Ecevit, who despises Erbakan's erratic ways and irresponsible politics, might accept the Salvationists as allies, but then ignore them. Washington is uncertain about what an Ecevit government will mean for still strained Turkish-U.S. relations. Meeting newsmen last week, Ecevit warned that the continuation of a Congress-imposed embargo on military aid to Turkey will have "certain inevitable impacts on [our] contribution to the collective security system." He spoke vaguely of forming a new "national defense concept" that "need not be in conflict with our membership in NATO." Ecevit did not spell...
...order promises, Ecevit raised a few eyebrows by saying that he planned to legalize Turkey's small Communist Party (perhaps 2,000 members) by introducing legislation to repeal penal-code provisions that outlaw "class struggle." He also promised to seek a political amnesty, "since we don't accept the principle of crimes of opinion." Ecevit carefully exempted crimes of violence, however. He is aware that many of the 250 leftist criminals in Turkish prisons are there not for what they thought, but for rioting, arson and murder...
...McCarthy period probably only helped to confirm Fairbank's long-standing cynicism about the possibilities of cross-cultural understanding and social change. As Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, who was one of Fairbank's graduate students after the war says, "Everyone would accept the view that we have a tendency to be culture-bound, but not everyone would stress it as much." And Thomson calls Fairbank an "historical pessimist" who "does not believe in the perfectibility of people or their institutions...
Harvard still seems to have room to procede fairly slowly with its educational review--a much higher rate of high school seniors accept places at Harvard than anywhere else. The College can ride the crest of its reputation for a while longer, it seems, because at the moment no one else is doing a better job of defining the meaning of education in our age. But one administrator admitted recently that it could be damaging to Harvard's current efforts if a charismatic educational leader emerged elsewhere--and that leader could emerge at any time...