Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over. Although Ben Amar was charged with tax evasion, the government used the trial to accuse him of "treason" in helping the Bey's family smuggle jewels from the country. Complained old Ben Amar: "I did not want to be Premier in the first place. I only accepted because Bourguiba pleaded with me to accept." The court's finding: no treasonable behavior, but it levied a $75,000 fine on him for "fiscal fraud." "A false quarrel," snapped L'Action, adding: "His trial-which others have been spared-looked very much like a deliberate provocation...
...Bourguiba. "Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous." In an interview with New York Times Correspondent Thomas Brady, Bourguiba expanded: "At the moment of a revolution there is no question of setting up a democracy like that in America. If they accuse me of dictatorship, I accept. I am creating a nation. Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeria-until the nation becomes homogeneous...
...following are the names of owners or superintendents, with the addresses of their respective apartments, who told me that they would definitely not accept Negroes as tenants...
...progress of the negotiations at Warsaw do not offer much hope for encouragement either, especially with harsh communiques further clouding the air. The President has promised that no agreement prejudicing the Taipei government will result, and Chiang declares he will not accept even demilitarization of the area. These statements leave little room for negotiation...
Jordan's King Hussein, said Hammarskjold, agreed to accept an ambassador as the U.N.'s "presence" in Amman, provided others were named for Cairo and Baghdad, too. Nasser had no objection to one in Amman, but to accept one in Cairo would be an admission that Nasser was guilty of something. That he rejected out of hand. In the face of such intransigence, Hussein concluded that a U.N. presence was no substitute for British troops. This week Amman announced that the British, whose aid was cut off at Jordanian request in 1957, had agreed to grant Jordan...