Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unnecessary to repeat here the basic arguments in favor of amnesty. Since 1972 polls have shown that a large majority of Americans think the Vietnam war was a mistake. It seems safe to infer that most of these people favor, or at least would accept, the idea of amnesty. At any rate, there seems little doubt that Jimmy Carter plans some kind of action on the matter. But the question remains: how far will...
...should be an amnesty, which makes no judgment, as opposed to a pardon, which implies guilt. Many who are eligible for amnesty or a pardon have indicated they would refuse to accept the latter, since they do not believe they committed a crime by refusing to participate in an unjust...
...95th Congress. They can strive for an extended honeymoon with the Carter administration and acquiesce in all his legislative initiatives. Or, profiting by Phil Hart's example in the Eastland case, they can remain friendly but true to their convictions, rejecting Cabinet nominees and policies, that they cannot accept...
...knew until December 28, the day the council met, whether Frost would accept the newly-cut deal. He did, claiming he wanted "real power" instead of taking a "suicide jump" by seeking council votes for acting mayor. The black coalition said he had sold out and pledged not to support him in the special mayoralty election, six months hence. Bilandic was elected acting mayor by the council and the next day Cook County Board Chairman George Dunne was elected chairman of the Central Committee...
...letting the shipboard soap operas play out to their predictable conclusions: Will the Werner-Dunaway marriage unthaw on the bounding main? Will Lee Grant be able to control her melancholiac husband, who is, she announces, "retreating into himself? "Your orders come straight from Berlin. If you refuse to accept them, be prepared to accept the consequences for yourself-and your family." Will Malcolm McDowell have a chance to initiate Lynne Frederick into the mysteries of "what it is to be a woman"? Some vulgarity can be amusing, but Voyage of the Damned is not only amusing but is also debasing...