Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending the war. There is pressure on the government to participate in a round of all-party talks, as proposed months ago by the British and American governments. The first priority of such a meeting would be to bring about a ceasefire. Presumably, neither Mugabe nor Nkomo would accept one unless they thought they had a very good chance of dominating a new government. Smith has consistently expressed skepticism about the value of further talks with the black nationalists, despite his private conviction that Nkomo would be the best black Prime Minister of a new government...
Under the terms of the Salisbury Agreement, the white electorate must vote in a referendum whether to accept that settlement. As a last-ditch maneuver, Smith could conceivably use this provision as an excuse to declare the March 3 agreement null and void and to restore himself as Rhodesia's Prime Minister. The risk of that course, obviously, is that it might well drive the black moderate leaders and their supporters over to the guerrillas' side...
...Steiger bandwagon has infuriated Carter, but not until last week did he fight back. At his press conference, he snapped, "I will not tolerate a plan that provides huge windfalls for millionaires and two bits for the average American." Nor, he said, would he accept a watered-down version of the amendment sponsored by Oklahoma Democrat James Jones...
...most the White House seems willing to accept is a bill with a $15 billion net cut in revenues but no reduction in the capital gains rate. At a Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing last week, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal said that the Steiger amendment "should be called the Millionaires' Relief Act of 1978," a view shared by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other labor leaders. That did not especially please the six Senators present, half of whom can count their net worth in seven figures.- The most heated exchanges came when Republican Senator Bob Pack wood...
Celibacy. "I just can't accept the notion that a married Protestant minister, all other things being equal, is as free to serve his people as is the celibate Catholic priest ... Nor is there any evidence from the research done that celibate priests are any more insensitive or incapable of intimacy than are married men of the same age and educational experience...