Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a government in which the majority in the Knesset will express its confidence. We will not even try to form a minority government as Labor has now. We consider the Democratic Movement for Change to be a serious candidate for the coalition. But we would not accept a D.M.C. ultimatum that we hold new elections in two years to get electoral reform. I would like a national unity government because now is an exceptional situation for Israel, both externally and internally. It is a serious situation. 1977 might be the year of political negotiations...
Unjust System. But on the crucial question, South Africa's political system, there was not the slightest agreement. Vorster and his delegation had argued that apartheid is not discriminatory and that the homelands will be truly independent. Mondale's public answer: "We cannot accept, let alone defend governments that reject the basic principle of full human rights, economic opportunity and political participation for all their people, regardless of race." To arguments by the South African government that it is keeping the region free of Communism, Mondale replied: "We believe that perpetuating an unjust system is the surest incentive...
...many of them along the guerrilla-infested border with Mozambique. He found that while many whites still believe they can hold their own in the war, it has become a futile effort, delaying and making more difficult the possibility of a settlement with the black majority, which they now accept as inevitable. Some vignettes from his brief encounters...
...Shapiro--It was entertaining to make your aquaintance, and gracious of you to accept my dinner invitation. If you make another attempt to see my daughter, I will have you tracked down and killed. Sincerely...
...about to be named, a couple of people working with Mr. Lowell naturally wanted Lowell House named for him," Perkins says. "Lowell said he wanted nothing to do with it, and they weren't going to have anything to do with it either," Perkins says. "Lowell was willing to accept the propriety of naming it for the Lowell family which had been close to Harvard since the 18th century. But then House master Julian Coolidge on his own got hold of the right people." Above the iron work in the main gate, he weaved, very covertly, the initials...