Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knesset had approved the treaty with the biblical terms, explained Begin. Inured to such tactics, Carter suggested a footnote to cover Begin's objections. But it could not be a Begin footnote or a Sadat footnote. "I'll write in a footnote," said Carter. "I accept," beamed Begin. In the new paragraph, Carter wrote: "I have been informed that the expression 'West Bank' is understood by the Government of Israel to mean 'Judea and Samaria...
...defend ourselves. [Arafat mocked the prospect of limited self-rule for a Palestinian state held out by the Camp David agreements.] Self-rule? Self-rule without any control of the land and even the water -the water for drinking? If you were in my position, would you accept it, this new slavery to my people...
...talks with China came and went last week without any parley taking place. Hanoi claimed that as many as 10,000 Chinese troops still occupied parts of its border area, and thus refused to discuss peace terms. Peking insisted that it had withdrawn completely from Viet Nam; U.S. analysts accept that statement, but they also believe that the Chinese have slightly altered the old border for tactical military purposes-"a matter of a hundred yards here and a hundred yards there," as one official...
...propositions it considered "basic, if not axiomatic" in examining university-corporate relations. Because the University is foremost a "center of free inquiry," the committee stated, it should maintain a neutral stance on political and social matters except those "where there is no longer room for argument among people who accept our basic socio-economic political system." One such unarguable issue, the committee stated was racism. Harvard adopted an official position of "hostility (whether in the University's role as center of learning, contractor, employer, or investor) to anything smacking of racism...
...lieu of increased production in the sense U.N. officials advocate, Lappe and Collins advocate rural reform on a world-wide scale. In "What Does Food Self-Reliance Mean?" they propose conscious planning of economic self-reliance of the less developed world. Whether we accept this argument or not, the fact remains that a "food crisis" still "threatens millions." U.N. officials agree with Lappe and Collins: food is not getting to many, many people...