Word: accept
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...carefully worded statement on bombing. He flatly rejected the idea of unilaterally extending a Christmas cease-fire in Viet Nam through Tet, arguing that to do so would endanger U.S. troops. He branded North Viet Nam an "international outlaw" for its treatment of American prisoners and its failure to accept an offer, made last week by Ambassador David K.E. Bruce in Paris, to exchange approximately 800 American and South Vietnamese P.O.W.s for ten times that number of North Vietnamese...
...Lieut. General John J. Tolson III commands the XVIII Airborne Corps with a similar desire to "cut out the crap," contending: "The soldier today is smarter than 25 years ago. What worked in the Army then won't work now, and the older guys are going to have to accept that...
...Soviets, according to a top member of the Nixon Administration, believe that because Brandt's government is so strongly committed to relaxing tensions with the East, it cannot leave the Moscow and Warsaw treaties in limbo for long. According to this view, Brandt may eventually be forced to accept the Soviet plan for Berlin: a "third German state" with economic ties to Bonn but with none of the political links that guarantee the city against absorption by East Germany. Other officials argue, however, that Moscow is moving slowly on Berlin largely because it is having trouble forcing East Germany...
Thuy said he felt the United States had rejected the June 30 deadline proposed by Mrs. Binh last September. If the United States is not willing to accept that deadline, he added, "then it should suggest another reasonable date...
Sizer said that the total number of full-time master's students (318) "will drop slightly" next year. He added that the bulk of the students will be distributed among several programs which will "accept responsibilities according to the resources they are allocated...