Word: accept
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...same, Bush is hoping that he can get the Fed chairman to signal in some way that he too would agree to a big slice, perhaps during his upcoming testimony before Congress. Greenspan thinks the surplus should be used to pay down the national debt, but he would accept seeing some of it go back as a tax cut before he would allow Congress to use it for more spending programs...
...Horizon: A change of Israeli leadership when the country votes on February 6, mounting challenges to Arafat's leadership should he accept any new compromises - and the beginnings of a struggle to succeed the ailing Palestinian leader who has named no heir. There will almost certainly be more bloodshed...
...Colombian military for a counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas who control more than one third of that country. Because the guerrillas allow massive drug cultivation in their territory, the U.S. justifies the money as part of its war on drugs, and the Colombian government is only to happy to accept since the rebels earn hundreds of millions every year taxing the narco-traffickers. But critics warn the expanded military commitment is simply drawing the U.S. into a quagmire, and point out the poor human rights record of the Colombian military and the fact that many of its senior officers have...
...Egypt's leading newspaper, chief editor and Mubarak confidant Samir Ragab wrote that Arabs "unanimously rejected" the nature of the U.S. proposals. "This offer does not meet Arab and Palestinian interests and there is nothing which will force us to accept it." In Lebanon, a Foreign Ministry official renewed his country's objections to "any agreement between Palestinians and Israelis that may be related to the issue of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon without Lebanon being party to the agreement." Of course that means Syria has to come too - and Thursday the mouthpiece Syria Times nixed the proposals too. The plan...
...Barak, at least, sounds desperate enough to take a chance. "The natural tendency is of course to want to make many changes in the proposals," he told Israeli television Monday, before laying his card on the table. "I believe if Yasir Arafat accepts things as they were presented by President Clinton, we are also compelled to accept them...