Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even sympathize with their leaders. Fearing that Wilson will delay negotiating with the UDI government until the Rhodesian economy has lapsed into chaos, the Conservatives have sent Selwyn Lloyd to Rhodesia on a "fact-finding" mission. The Tories will capitalize on any indications of submissiveness he may detect. They insist that there must be no question of direct rule by Britain at the time of the rebellion. Rhodesia should be subject to limited white control under a constitution which protects African rights and provides for eventual majority rule...
Dirksen used to advantage a Senate rule by which no committee other than Appropriations may meet while the main body is in session. "I must insist on that rule," he intoned in his best steamboat-Gothic profundo. "I cannot, helter-skelter, permit one committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal...
...Communists below the 17th parallel would involve unthinkable costs and dangers. Even to defeat the 230,000-man Communist force in the South today would probably require at least one million American troops, according to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times and several Pentagon officials; most military strategists insist that a 10 to 1 ration manpower is essential for the success of search-and-destroy operations...
...opposed as we are to the present Administration policy, the CRIMSON also opposes those who, in urging unilateral withdrawal from the war, insist we have no commitments in Vietnam. For American policy and rhetoric in the past and American presence today have created commitments both to our supporters in South Vietnam and to our allies throughout Southeast Asia; these commitments cannot be ignored...
Above all, the United States is faced with the problem of protecting its friends in South Vietnam from the blood-bath and chaos which immediate withdrawal would invite. Hoping for something better than a government with significant NLF representation is unreasonable, but the United States must insist on a solution which guarantees the Saigon regime and its supporters a political stability in which they can live without fear of reprisal...