Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NUCLEAR NUMBERS game will start up again in earnest when American and Soviet negotiators sit down in Geneva next week to talk missiles. Our side will point to the overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing...
...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
...Right of all states in the region to live in peace. President Reagan and others have stressed that this implies recognition of Israel's existence, something that no Arab country apart from Egypt has ever granted. The Israelis endorse peaceful coexistence, but they insist that the state of Israel must be mentioned by name in any declaration of that principle. On the Arab side, only the Libyans and the P.L.O. hard-liners reject the notion of peaceful coexistence with Israel...
...from Garry Wills' forthcoming book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, an analysis of John Kennedy's presidency, to run in the January and February issues. Later in the year, the Atlantic will publish parts of Reporter Seymour Hersh's book on Henry Kissinger. The magazine's editors insist that their primary focus remains in-depth nonfiction and literate fiction. Says Zuckerman: "We really are not pursuing breaking news-but we don't mind making...
Cambridge Express may well be successful; its higher-ups insist they are well ahead of all their financial objectives. If they are, it is damning proof of how totally historical the Phoenix's 15-year retrospective really is. There is one great paragraph in the current Express--part of a scenario about two people who meet an automatic money machine. "My impression is that if these two had met five, or certainly, ten years ago, their genuine passion would have reflected a public spirit which suggested that what was worth wanting was worth attempting. Presently, they have encountered a public...