Word: accepting
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...MIDDLE EAST. In an area far more vital to U.S. strategic interests than is Indochina, the failure of Kissinger's mission dashed high U.S. hopes for the beginning of peace. For 17 days he had tried to persuade Israel and Egypt to accept further disengagement in the Sinai. Now the Geneva Conference on the Middle East will probably be reconvened, but it is likely to bog down and cause a stalemate that could lead to yet another...
...efforts to be a broker are dead." With that crisp summary, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, at a meeting of congressional leaders last week, admitted the most notable failure in his extraordinary diplomatic career. Kissinger's inability to get Israel and Egypt to accept a second-stage disengagement agreement in the Sinai cast the Middle East once more into a mood of tension. The collapse of the American peace initiative left a reconvening of the Geneva Conference or another round of war as alternatives to Kissinger's step-by-step approach to bilateral negotiations. What had gone wrong...
Congress may not be in the mood to accept this, and no doubt stronger supervision is needed to guard against illegal CIA activities. But in the real world, in which other nations engage in espionage and "dirty tricks," the U.S. cannot do without an agency more or less like the CIA, and such an agency must, up to a considerable point, function in secret...
Watchful Press. George E. Reedy Jr., the onetime press secretary to Lyndon Johnson and now dean of Marquette University's College of Journalism, does not accept so balanced a view...
...Middle East fund-raising situation brings to mind, however, what Peterson calls "the ideological restraints" of international fund-raising. "If any country were to put down racial restrictions, we wouldn't accept the money," he says. "We have turned down money already on that regard." Peterson says that often the genealogy of the fund-raised dollar is so tangled that it gets nearly impossible to tell what the original source of the donor's money was. But, he says, the University is careful to reject money from corporations or governments whose enterprises may be illegitimate for fear that by accepting...