Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cassidy. "No British government," he said, "can accept such uncivilized, brutal treatment of a British subject in the hands of a foreign government." At week's end Chile denied that Dr. Cassidy had been tortured...
More important, 18 Japanese lawyers have taken up the case. They have sued their own government to accept its long-term responsibility. They have in effect asked that Tokyo not only approach Moscow through diplomatic channels, but also pay for transporting the refugees back to South Korea. The case goes to trial next month in Tokyo, and the lawyers hope that they may finally goad the government into taking action. "Only when our government accepts the responsibility of shipping these people back home can it once again begin talking about human rights," says Hiroshi Izumi, one of the 18 representing...
...measure" when he received from No. 10 Downing Street a letter offering him a trusteeship in London's prestigious Tate Gallery. So thrilled, he later remembered, that he neglected to open a second letter from the same address. It contained a polite inquiry as to whether Attenborough would accept a British knighthood. "It has not fully sunk in yet," said Attenborough happily last week after learning that he was among 32 Britons thus honored...
...result many rural communities are often without the services of a doctor and are eager to accept anyone who is remotely qualified. That sometimes leaves them with a doctor who, as one critical observer says, is "a bum, an alcoholic or a drug addict-somebody...
...conflict went right down to the final curtain, as it tends to do in opera. Just before the New Year's Eve performance of Tosca last week, the members of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra voted 72-5 to accept a new contract proposal given them only hours before. If they had voted no and struck, the result could have been disastrous for the financially plagued Met (TIME, Dec. 29). The musicians, who were paid a minimum of $385 a week, had asked for a one-year 12% pay increase; they accepted an 11 % raise spread over this season...