Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the night? I like the night because I can act the way I always act--which is a little bit crazy--and people accept it. Even preppies aren't put off, the way they would be at a lunch table. Yeah, even tight-ass people. At night, people are more laid back. So I feel there are actually people who belong to my race. During the day, I feel like I'm from another race...
False Noses. But it was the failure of the uniformed police to discipline either their off-duty brethren or the mobs at Yankee Stadium that exhausted the city's patience. In an angry statement. Commissioner Codd told his 26,000-man force that any policeman unwilling to accept the responsibility of his job should "retire or get out." Codd promised to bring departmental charges against the offenders and the precinct captains who had allowed the disorders to occur...
...chance for peace in Rhodesia is still only that ? a chance. Kissinger's main accomplishment ? and it was a significant one ? was persuading Smith that he had no realistic choice but to accept a British plan, which he had earlier rejected, that would lead Rhodesia to black majority rule within two years. But a settlement that will bring an end to the guerrilla war smoldering along Rhodesia's 800-mile border with Mozambique and 400-mile border with Zambia is by no means a certainty. That war, which began in earnest in December 1972, may well continue...
...fact, Vorster seems to have decided to sacrifice the Smith regime in Rhodesia and accept independence for Namibia in a gamble that these moves will buy time for him to put into effect Pretoria's own strategy for survival. This does not involve greater integration of the blacks in the country's economic and political life; on the contrary, Vorster's strategy seems to be to complete the original South African blueprint for "separate development" of the races known as apartheid (Afrikaans for "separateness"). Hoping to perpetuate the political power of the whites, who form only 17% of the South...
...into making a unilateral declaration of independence in order to block London's intention of bringing about black majority rule. In the years that followed, Smith led white Rhodesia's dukes-up resistance to international pressure for change. But it was Smith, too, who finally agreed to accept reality. His epochal meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was, according to one sympathetic witness, "probably the most painful day of his life...