Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point that it can, with safety, search more actively for accommodations with the Soviet Union. Reagan tried out this new line in a speech last week, softening his rhetoric notably to appeal for a "working relationship" with Moscow. But while campaigning as a peacemaker, Reagan will probably insist that he needs every penny of the 17% increase in military spending that he will request for fiscal...
...tone ("My whole life was shallow"), such meekness will probably go for naught. Barnes volunteered to talk for no more than the assurance that his cooperation would be brought to the attention of the Government. U.S. prosecutors, who last week produced a 19-page memo detailing Barnes' cooperation, insist that the one man who has the power to grant clemency, the President, is hardly likely to give even as much as a chance for parole. Asks Assistant U.S. Attor-Tney Philip Douglas: "What President wants to go on record as 1 having reduced the sentence of Nicky Barnes...
...Soviets continued to insist that they will not return to the table in Geneva until the new Pershing II and cruise missiles that were installed in West Germany, Britain and Italy last year are removed. To underscore Soviet concern about the new weapons, the official newspaper of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Krasnaya Zvezda, reported last week that "fierce, mighty weapons"-presumably, short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give...
...Kremlin keeps signaling that he is actively involved in decision making. Last week Andropov sent a message to a visiting delegation of French peace activists urging that "not a single chance should be missed for a return to the path of talks." But the Soviet leader continued to insist that negotiations would only resume when NATO was ready to "return to the situation which had existed prior to the start of the deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles in Europe...
...over, hit by a car, tromped by a horse, robbed, fooled, deceived, doublecrossed, dealt seconds . . . but I am still here." Not even death weakens such a stand. The power of ghosts is that they manage to retain their place in the world in spite of the final obstruction; they insist on their presence. A simple matter, but a basic one. We will do anything to stay around, and to keep others around as well, by way of monuments, ceremonies, books. During the Stalinist terror, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova stood in line at the Leningrad prison...