Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandate, which came into being with the first-stage disengagement agreement after the October war. At Salzburg he was persuaded by Ford to accept a series of one-year extensions that add up to three years...
...interim agreement by no means should give the feeling that under the threats of war and oil embargo, the U.S. can put pressure on Israel to accept all that the Egyptians want. That would only be an invitation for increased blackmail. The way to cope with it is to show Egypt that [it] cannot achieve everything it wants...
...however, the special character of the relationship should continue to prove helpful to Israel. Rabin and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt reached no dramatic decisions in their conversations last week. Much of their time together was spent reviewing the Middle East situation, with Schmidt pressing Rabin to accept concessions that would lead to peace. In private conversations, however, West German officials indicated at least obliquely that if another Middle East war occurred and Israel needed European landing rights for planes bringing supplies from the U.S., this would be no problem...
...Constituent Assembly, in which the moderate forces have a majority. Portugal's outraged Socialist leader, Mario Scares-perhaps the country's best hope for Socialism with a human face -resigned from the government, in which he served as Minister Without Portfolio, declaring that his party "will never accept a dictatorship." Officially, Scares resigned to protest the fact that the government had refused to give back to the Socialists their Lisbon daily Republica, which last week resumed publication under radical workers' control. In fact, he resigned because of the program...
...slipped back into poverty because of the combination of recession and inflation. Though the slippage is doubtless temporary, it has led to great disillusionment among those left behind. Political Scientist Charles Lindblom of Yale asserts that capitalism in the past has depended on women, blacks and other groups to accept unthinkingly a disadvantaged role and a meager share of the system's rewards. Now they are pressing for full equality and, says Lindblom, "it's really touch and go" whether the system can satisfy them...