Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Military Stalemate. Some South Africans hope that with their help, UNITA can hold the M.P.L.A. to a military stalemate. That in turn might induce M.P.L.A. Leader Agostinho Neto to accept a power-sharing agreement with Savimbi, who is solidly backed by the Ovimbundu, Angola's largest tribal group. In that case, Pretoria could offer to withdraw its forces on condition that the Cubans and Soviets do the same...
...dissidents as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov and concede only "unfortunate exceptions" to the Communist ideal are displaying the same false optimism as those who dismissed rumors of Soviet concentration camps two decades ago. "Many independents on the left," Revel charges, "are 'Finlandized' from within-willing to accept all manner of self-censorship on behalf of Stalinism." A case in point: the refusal of many Socialists to face up to the meaning of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...Martin Luther King was on TV almost every day, talking defiantly about how black people were going to get their rights, insisting that they would accept with nonviolence all the terrible violence that white people were inflicting on them, until the day of victory arrived, until they did overcome...
Despite the fighting, Lebanon's Christian-Moslem Cabinet managed to hold its regular session at midweek, after which Premier Karami declared, "I'm getting all warring parties to accept a compromise settlement to bring the bitter fight to an end." The passions that divide Lebanon's factions have shattered a score of cease-fires so far, how ever, and the air force's entry into the fighting further weakens the already slim possibility of a lasting truce. Syria's armed forces chief of staff, Major Gen eral Hikmat Shehabi, arrived in Beirut just before...
...Ledesma, his mother (who now works as a clerk in a grocery store), and his father (who collects social security now after retiring from his own little business of collecting volcanic rock in Mexico for sale as ornaments in Southern California). While Ledesma says he is not ready to accept the church as true, many of the questions and contradictions that once bothered him have been resolved...