Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tension, many in the peace movement insist that they are not anti-American. "The U.S. soldiers here don't understand that we are not against them personally," insists one activist. "We are against their missiles. We are against the militarization they represent. But we mean none of this as a personal attack." Says Jo Leinen, head of Federal Citizens' Initiatives Association, a nationwide umbrella group involved in the protests: "[Our movement] is part of a German emancipation. There was a war, we were occupied, and we want to liberate ourselves. Now our campaign is against missiles. There...
...would have little use in reconnaissance. Such a mission would be worthless from the U.S. standpoint, since American satellites and the RC-135s provide far more detailed intelligence than any modified 747 could. The U.S. has never sent out a 747 on a spy mission, Air Force sources insist. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was vehement in his denial of the spying charge. Said he: "Nobody on earth but the Soviet authorities would believe that a 70-year-old man or a four-year-old child would be allowed to fly in a civilian plane that had the objective...
Just as they resemble each other physically, the villages are defended by militias that use strikingly similar rhetoric. Both argue that they are merely defending their homes and that the enemy is the aggressor. Both insist that there is nothing religious about their fight but that the other side is intent on imposing its will on the whole of Lebanon. The Christian Phalangists came to the Chouf under Israeli army protection; the Druze operate from secure bases behind Syrian lines. Nonetheless, each side blames the other for drawing foreign powers into the conflict...
This consistency has proven to be particularly difficult to achieve because of the rapid turnover in membership on the ACSR. The Committee consists of 12 members: four alumni, four Faculty, and four students. Each serves for a two-year term, and many members insist that it takes a full year just to learn how the Harvard portfolio operates. This year, for example, seven of the 14 members will be leaving. Noel McGinn, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education who is one of the outgoing members, says that this constant turnover prevents the ACSR from passing on a coherent...
This consistency has proven to be particularly difficult to achieve because of the rapid turnover in membership on the ACSR. The Committee consists of 12 members; four alumni, four Faculty, and four students. Each serves for a two-year term, and many members insist that it takes a full year just to learn how the Harvard portfolio operates. This year, for example, seven of the 14 members will be leaving. Noel McGinn, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education who is one of the outgoing members, says that this constant turnover prevents the ACSR from passing on a coherent...