Word: accepting
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Fair Fight? Of course, candidates who are well known or who have personal fortunes (or wealthy and generous close relatives) could conceivably enter primaries at the last minute and make a decisive impact with a big infusion of cash, as long as they did not accept any federal funds. As a result, aides to relatively poor Fred Harris and Morris Udall complained that the court decision hypothetically gave an unfair advantage to candidates with money of their own. Among the better-off are Milton Shapp, Lloyd Bentsen and Sargent Shriver, who is married to a Kennedy. Said Udall...
...entrenched males were wary, but not hostile. "Our attitude now is better than it was last November, and in November it was better than in September, and by June it will be even better," said one cadet. "We have to accept it. We have to make it work...
Lasting peace will not be achieved until all factions accept long-overdue reforms that will change the unwritten "National Covenant" that gives the Christian minority a disproportionate share of economic and political power in Lebanon. Syria is certain to play an important role in drafting those reforms...
...PALESTINIAN STATE. We believe that a united, democratic state in Palestine, where both Arabs and Jews will live, is the real solution. U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 is based on acceptance of Israel within its pre-1967 borders; within those borders, Israel occupies 80% of Palestine. What will Palestinians say to us if we accept a settlement that liberates only 20% of Palestine and does not let them return to their homes? Suppose they offered us 50% of Palestine? Would we accept? No! We object to the Israeli state. Nobody can convince me that Zionism is not racist. No Arabs...
...major problem with a Geneva conference: how to deal with Palestinian representation. Rabin reiterated last week that Israel would accept Palestinians as part of a Jordanian delegation (see box, next page) but would refuse to deal directly with the hated Palestine Liberation Organization. "We know what the [P.L.O.] objective is," he said. "It is written large into the Palestinian Covenant, which is their binding constitution. Every paragraph of it spits out the venom calling for Israel's destruction." Because of the U.S. Jewish lobby's influence in the elections, Ford and Kissinger are unlikely to put strong pressure...