Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York State Elks just has to be some kind of reactionary McCarthyite, despite any evidence to the contrary. Although O'Connor has consistently opposed capital punishment and compulsory civil commitment of drug addicts, and is strongly supporting Mayor Lindsay's civilian review board, many City liberals still insist on seeing him as a pawn of the reactionary Archbishop of Brooklyn...
...least, the situation is not that simple. Many of Roxbury's civic organizations are directed, manned, and maintained by both whites and Negroes. Some organizations could not survive without the "Green Power" supplied by white members; other groups insist that often the white members are better trained and have more leisure time to perform the tasks which they admit ideally should be held by Negroes. However much Carmichael dislikes discussing the split between various groups in "the movement" before a national (integrated) audience, the differences persist...
There are, of course, arguments on both sides. The groups which have followed Carmichael's advice insist that it is more important to have indigenous Negroes showing their brothers in the ghetto that they can fill the posts traditionally held by whites. To most of the advocates of this position, it is more important to establish an image of Negro competence and pride than it is to obtain white financial and technical support. "We'd rather do our own teaching than have some lilly white teacher talking about Snow White to our black children," Carmichael said to a Roxbury gathering...
That figure now stands at $4.5 billion, and a few cost-conscious Congressmen insist that the U.S., rather than pay that price, ought to withdraw entirely from the SST race. Asks Wisconsin's Demo cratic Senator William Proxmire: "Is this the time to spend federal money on this jet-set frill...
...CHEMICALS. The Europeans insist that the U.S. eliminate the so-called Amer ican Selling Price tariff on certain chemicals, mainly benzenoids used in dyes, medicines and plastics. The A.S.P. taxes these goods not on their actual value but on the market price of the same products made in the U.S., which is often much higher. The result is chemical tariffs running as high as 172%. The U.S. is willing to cut the A.S.P. in return for European concessions in other areas, but both sides are still far apart...