Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assassinate the now rich Niepolomski. So what if she has to throw herself in front of a bullet to protect him from her own treachery? So what if she dies looking like a streetwalker, her painted face in his hands? The score and the dashing camerawork tell us to accept it all in schmaltzy, romantic stride...
...common basis for the talks, as Richard emphasized, is that all sides now accept that Rhodesia is to become an independent country under majority rule within two years. But while the black delegations contend that all details for the transfer of power are up for negotiation, Smith insists that he came to Geneva solely to fill in the details of the so-called Kissinger plan, announced last September. According to Smith, Kissinger's scheme would set up a two-tier interim government in which whites would share power with blacks but would remain dominant during the changeover (TIME cover...
...method of peaceful negotiations." He quickly cautioned, though, that if the current talks failed there would be no choice but to continue "war in the pursuit of peace." The most conciliatory of the four blacks, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, credited the Rhodesians for having the good sense to accept the "new political reality" and the principle of majority rule...
...refusal to openly accept black majority rule...
That beach and then some. Provided, that is, that a young lawyer named Thomas Tureen can convince the courts to accept his theory about the Nonintercourse Act of 1790. This much amended act states that "any title to Indian land obtained without federal approval is null and void." Tureen's theory is that this act invalidates many subsequent land sales throughout New England. In Mashpee, specifically, a class-action filed in August demands the return of virtually the entire town to the Wampanoag. The suit, however, would allow householders to stay as long as they paid "fair rental value...