But it remained highly uncertain whether the young dictator would embrace the offer by agreeing to eliminate his nuclear arsenal.
The patriarchal chancellor of the new West German republic, Konrad Adenauer, embraced the offer at once, for the primary foreign policy goal of his new state was economic and political rehabilitation.
Of course the first lady embraced the offer and, with unprecedented speed and panache, she was endorsed by all Zanu-PF provinces as the next head of the Women's League to be elected, without contest, at the current congress.
In a one-on-one meeting without aides, Mr. Solana told Ali Larijani, the chief Iranian negotiator, that there would be "serious consequences" against Iran in the United Nations Security Council if Iran did not suspend key nuclear activities and embrace the offer, the officials added.
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He spent much of the month attending pride events, torn between embracing the freedom offered by his new life and the guilt he felt over the LGBT community he had left behind.
But so would embracing the alternative offered by thinkers across the ideological spectrum who, concerned that our reach exceeds our means, advise us to pull back without considering the likely consequences, as we did in the 1930s.
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