Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they were supporting. The U.S. had encouraged the plotters against Diem, but then changed course. On Oct. 30, 1963, just before the coup, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that he was unable to halt it. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Bundy cabled back from Washington: WE CANNOT ACCEPT CONCLUSION THAT WE HAVE NO POWER TO DELAY OR DISCOURAGE A COUP. Three days later, Diem was murdered...
...celebrant at the requiem Mass was the Archbishop of Madrid, Vicente Cardinal Enrique y TarancÓn. A moderate reformer who has clashed with the regime, the cardinal in his restrained, stately eulogy noted that no man is free of mistakes. In effect, he proposed that Spain must accept the Franco legacy−but must also improve upon...
...President Costa Gomes did not have enough trouble in Lisbon, General Atlino Magalhàes, military governor of the Portuguese Azores, last week warned that the islands would not accept a government that was unrepresentative of the Portuguese people. The statement was interpreted as a veiled threat that Magalhàes and the island's other military commanders may join forces with the secessionist Azorian Liberation Front (FLA) if near anarchy continues to dominate Portuguese politics. The right-wing FLA, which advocates independence for the Azores, has proved nettlesome in the past; late last month it fomented riots against...
...moves by organized pressure groups in the army and among the workers. Attempts to replace maverick leftist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho−who openly sympathizes with riotous workers' demonstrations−as military commander of Lisbon failed when leftist commanders of the Lisbon units met and refused to accept Otelo's successor. The defeat was an ominous one for Pinheiro de Azevedo's Sixth Provisional government...
Last Gasp. The DeCrow group, which took 25 of 34 NOW offices in the October elections, regards Womansurge as a splinter faction of aging professional women willing to accept token advances and avoid new issues. "It's the last gasp of a very small group with a condescending view of what feminism is like," says DeCrow. "If you mention you want to change the behavior of men or if you mention gay rights, they're frightened away...