Word: accept
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...departure from Russia's longtime insistence that a nuclear test ban must start with a flat ban on all tests, detectable or not, Tsarapkin agreed to accept the U.S.'s distinction between 1) detectable tests, which the U.S. is willing to ban if an adequate detection system is worked out, and 2) smaller underground tests, which the U.S. is not willing to include in the treaty ban because at present there is no known practical way of detecting them (see box next page). Said Tsarapkin: Russia will agree to a treaty banning only tests above the threshold...
Furthermore, they said the U.S. would be wise to accept the Soviet plan for a year or two, because even the best of systems would require a year or two to install adequate control stations. And in the next few years, scientists might actually develop foolproof detectors, or the Soviets might give a bit more on inspection. Most important, the Soviets had apparently accepted the principle of inspection (albeit with precious few specifics), and inspection is the starting point for any realistic system of disarmament. By making this start-at an admitted risk-the U.S., they held, would win respect...
...Near North. Internationally, too, Australia speaks these days with its own distinctive voice. Menzies is British in heart, soul and mind, and in the Suez crisis, after failing to persuade Nasser to accept international control of the canal, Menzies lined Australia behind Sir Anthony Eden's invasion. He did so against the will of former Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey,-and only New Zealand in the rest of the Commonwealth sided with Britain...
...Schlesinger. Theologian Bennett gives two reasons: 1) Catholics in democratic countries have come to see that the church does better where it does not assert authoritarian influence than in places such as Spain and Latin America; 2) more and more Catholic scholars and church leaders are coming to accept religious liberty as a matter of principle. Schlesinger feels that "most Catholic leaders have honestly accepted the pluralism of American society...
...crippled Phineas returns to Devon School, announces gaily that the war is a fraud, and begins training the tormented Gene for the 1944 Olympics. But what happened in the tree obtrudes ike the maimed athlete's dragging leg. In a weird kangaroo court, even Phineas is made to accept the truth. He staggers out of the room, breaks his leg in another fall, and this time dies. "My war ended before I ever put on a uniform," Gene reflects. "I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there...