Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspicious-looking plastic bag of white powder, along with drug manuals that contained instructions for encapsulating cyanide. A lab test found the powder to be a harmless carbonate, but Arnold admitted that he had kept sodium cyanide in his basement several months ago for "experiments." Nevertheless, Chicago police insist that Arnold, now out on bail, "is not a prime suspect at this time...
...Lebanon, Shamir insisted that the 5,000 to 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas still in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley should leave before any Israeli withdrawal began. But he did not totally reject the idea that the P.L.O. might depart at the same time as a mutual Syrian-Israeli withdrawal. Among the security arrangements Shamir did insist on was establishment of a 40-km security zone north of the Israeli border as a buffer against future P.L.O. incursions...
...leave the country before order could be restored. However, I agreed with him that he should do so with dignity, in accordance with his own schedule and only after a stable successor government had been established. Sullivan, however, was recommending that we oppose the plans of the Shah, insist on his immediate departure and try to form some kind of friendship or alliance with Khomeini. I rejected this recommendation because the Shah, Bakhtiar and the Iranian military leaders needed consistent American support...
Begin came with Dayan and Barak, for which we were thankful. If anyone at Camp David had influence on Begin, it was these two men. Begin began talking about the blessed settlements, but I insisted that we go through both documents in an orderly fashion, paragraph by paragraph. I wanted the Israelis to realize how few differences remained. In an hour we were finished with the Sinai document, and it was obvious to me that Sadat would be willing to accept almost all the Israeli demands for change. The few others were not very important to Begin, and I felt...
Another serious difference was the phrase from United Nations Resolution 242, "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." The Arabs would all insist that Israel acknowledge the applicability of this principle in any treaties signed, because it would recognize that lands occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War had not legally changed hands. Begin understood