Word: insist
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...Peking. At the moment, the Soviets are intensely concerned about liberalizing trends in Poland. A new U.S.China accord might well increase Moscow's sense of isolation and lead the Kremlin leaders to conclude that nothing would be lost by cracking down on the Poles. U.S. officials insist that the arms-sale offer was merely a natural step in improving relations with Peking. They contend that the U.S. has retained flexibility in future dealings with China and, as a consequence, with the Soviet Union as well...
Some Centralians insist they will never leave their homes. But a growing majority say they are willing to move. In a nonbinding referendum that drew 80% of the borough's electorate last month, townspeople voted 434 to 204 to move if necessary. "You can replace a home," said Girolami. "You can't replace a family. A lot of us would be happy if the Government moved us. We've been waiting 19 years for them to put out the fire...
...French, however, insist that any diversion of enriched uranium by the Iraqis for bombmaking, or conversion of the reactor for plutonium production would immediately have been spotted by the 150 French technical advisors at Tammuz or by International Atomic Energy Agency inspector charged with enforcing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which Iraq signed in 1968. France had taken steps to minimize the possibility that nuclear fuel might be diverted for military purposes. Paris had promised, for example, to deliver only enough enriched uranium in a shipment to keep the reactor going, thus preventing the Iraqis from stockpiling the material. Last June...
Though the Israelis insist that Iraq was only months away from constructing a bomb many international nuclear experts doubt that the Iraqis would have had the technical expertise to build a nuclear device for another ten years. Says a French official: "The danger is not that Iraq would build a bomb in the next year or two , but that by the end of the decade Iraq would have the know-how to do whatever it pleases without anyone's assistance...
...University of California at Berkeley, has studied the world prices of gold and other commodities going back to 1560. He concluded that the historic price of gold, in relation to the prices of those other products, would now be about $250 per oz. Some gold bugs, though, insist that the price under a new gold standard should be as high...