Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S characterization of those who urged support for the Spanish Republic or for Israel while opposing our involvement in Viet Nam as "capricious" is capricious. Only absolute pacifism-or absolute idiocy-would insist that opposition to one war logically requires opposition to all wars, regardless of political or moral considerations. The Spanish Republic was elected by the Spanish people and was defending its right to exist. The Israelis are in a similar situation. We do not know what the Vietnamese think except that those most willing to die for their beliefs seem to be on the other side...
...class destroyers carry the 100-mile range SSN1 missiles, and the speedy Osa and Komar torpedo boats are armed with Styx missiles, whose effective range is 20 miles. A Styx fired by the Egyptians from a Komar sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said last October. U.S. Navymen insist that their planes would knock out Soviet ships before they got within firing range of U.S. warships or, failing that, that U.S. antiaircraft rockets would intercept the missiles in flight. But the U.S. Navy has now started work on ship-to-ship missiles...
...backed by the full power of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., demand the right to bargain as a coalition within each company, and to set common expiration dates on all contracts. "This is a strike," said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany recently, "that we cannot afford to lose." The copper producers insist that company-wide bargaining would put the industry at the mercy of the steelworkers' union...
That is a gamble Westy was willing to take because Khe Sanh sits astride five passes through the rugged Annamite mountains, including the major east-west Route No. 9. Control of Khe Sanh, U.S. commanders insist, puts the Marines in a blocking position across the natural invasion route into the northern provinces of South Viet...
...wife and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. And that may not be the end of it. "I would love to paint Mrs. Johnson," said Henriette. "She has a strong face, brilliant dark eyes, and intense feelings and opinions." All the same, Mrs. Hurd added cautiously, "I would insist on a clear understanding of how it would be done before we start...