Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greek part of the island is back to its pre-1974 level ($1,200 per year). Businessman Theo Hadjilambrou, 38, says jokingly, "When we Greek Cypriots see one of our group living a little better, the others work 25 hours a day." Nonetheless, few Greek Cypriots would accept any peace agreement that did not give them some hope of returning to their former homes...
Hanoi will not get that aid-at least not that much and not right away-and the Vietnamese now indicate the demand is negotiable. Washington, in turn, seems almost ready to accept the fact that the fate of most of the M.I.A.s will never be known. Beyond lowering its voice about the M.I.A.s, the U.S. will almost certainly refrain from blocking a new attempt to seat Hanoi in the U.N. Another early move could be to drop the existing trade embargo against Viet Nam, a measure passed by Congress last year but vetoed by Ford...
Click. The entire event had been begat in that emotion. The feeling lasted about two seconds, long enough for me to intuitively accept the absurdity of the situation and click...
...Smith's white-minority government and leaders of the black nationalist movement became deadlocked last month, and no one seems sure of the direction events are going to take. Smith's feelers toward moderate blacks may result in a black-white coalition if Bishop Muzorewa or Reverend Sithole accept the offers; but none of the three have control over the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, whose leaders have said repeatedly they will not accept a transition government in which the whites remain in control of the country's armed forces. And Smith continues to demand that transition phase, which means that future...
...support the Front." There are 6.2 million blacks in Zimbabwe, compared to a shrinking population of 270,000 whites. A coalition government that allowed the tiny group of whites to dominate the country would be little more than a cosmetic change, and the freedom fighters are unlikely to accept Smith's solution...