Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...base with the new Administration. His instructions were to express displeasure about the pending arms sale but not to make a major issue of it. "I guess it's just something we'll have to live with," said one high official in Israel at the time. Israelis assert that Shamir was given no hint that the deal might include AWACS and they now feel misled, even betrayed. U.S. officials insist that Shamir was told specifically that AWACS might be included...
...aircraft and naval movements, they could not again pull off a surprise attack on Arab states, such as the aerial assault that won the Six-Day War of 1967. Israeli officials insist that their objections go much deeper. One or two Saudi AWACS planes hovering over Saudi territory, they assert, could keep all of Israel under surveillance: though AWACS cannot pick out ground targets, the planes could monitor all Israeli aircraft movements and even aerial training exercises. Pentagon planners say AWACS planes could not coordinate an Arab attack on Israel unless all Arab air forces were equipped with sophisticated devices...
Just before the March 6 announcement, Reagan Administration officials fanned out on Capitol Hill to brief Congressmen and Senators on the pending arms sale, including the AWACS. Says one: "We found opposition, but not overwhelming opposition." Congressional leaders tell a different story: they assert that the Administration ignored warnings of very serious trouble for the AWACS deal...
...Wilson is too sparing with the privilege. Only two characters, Skelly and Cora, both outcast by the hypocritical moralizers of the village, have the opportunity to assert themselves. Eldritch despises Skelly (Robert Gould) for some sexual misadventure decades past, but he is the one, peeping through windows, who really knows the sordid truths which underlie their lives. Gould infuses the twisted, misanthropic Skelly with some of the most convincing passion in the play. Cora (Jennifer Divine), likewise denounced by the villagers, also achieves a down-to-earth honesty with the audience, though without the monologues. And had the role...
...with relatively liberal theologies were involved. It was sponsored by the National Council of Churches, also disliked by conservatives. Fundamentalists are at odds with some specific translations, most notably Isaiah 7:14, where "a young woman shall conceive" is used instead of "a virgin shall conceive." Such language, Fundamentalists assert, undermines belief in the virgin birth. A revised Revised, due in the 1980s may prove even less acceptable, not only to Fundamentalists but to other groups because it will eliminate "masculine-biased" language where the text permits. (The forthcoming Psalm 8:4: "What is a human being [not "man"] that...