Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kosygin was ready to argue that the Assembly ought to brand Israel an aggressor, and insist that it "disgorge the fruits of its aggression"-meaning withdraw from the Arab territories it now occupies-before any peace talks could begin. The two are very different propositions. On the purely technical matter of aggression, Israel scarcely bothers to deny any longer that it started shooting first. On the day before the guns opened up, the Israeli Cabinet met secretly to discuss whether to launch a "preemptive" attack before the gathering Arab armies struck. Abba Eban argued for further diplomatic efforts. Defense Minister...
...Palestinian refugees who lost their land in previous clashes. But the Israelis have more pressing priorities. Their first goal, as Foreign Minister Abba Eban put it last week, is "the acceptance of Israel's statehood." They are likely to demand the right of passage through Suez and to insist on keeping some of the real estate that they picked up during their four-day blitz-most notably Old Jerusalem, the highlands west of the River Jordan running from Jenin through Bethlehem to Hebron, and Sharm el Sheikh, which controls access to the Gulf of Aqaba...
When Mrs. Bunting and the House deans continued to insist that letting every senior move off would put Radcliffe in a dangerous financial position, the girls became convinced that there was "no way to effect our will through the regular channels of communication." During their discussions with Mrs. Bunting, they realized, they said, that "there is a greater problem at Radcliffe, something that goes beyond the immediate question of getting our own apartments: Do we as students have a real voice in the decision-making process of our college? Decisions at Radcliffe, it seems to us, are made completely from...
...success are minimal. In fact, with the exception of China and Vietnam, communists have been unable to seize control of nationalist movement anywhere in Asia or Africa. Therefore if guerrillas are successful, the nationalist governments which they establish need not conflict with America's vital interests; successful revolutionaries will insist on and maintain their independence of China and other powers...
...military insist that the program has a payoff for them. "The more people come to share the barracks life with our troops, the more deeply will our organization be understood," says General Shoji Wada, commander of the central Japan military district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo...