Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detonated. The police commissioner said he believed that Move members might have deliberately spread around combustible fluids like gasoline, and he even said Move members might have intentionally struck the fire that was to kill them. The inescapable peculiarity of Sambor's argument was that it forced him to insist that police, at the time they decided to drop the bomb, had no knowledge that there was any highly flammable material about the house. But it was almost impossible to suppose the police did not know that Move kept gasoline on the roof to run a generator there, and Sambor...
...produced no breakthroughs, at least it kept alive the resumed U.S.-Soviet dialogue. Shultz and Gromyko tentatively planned to meet again in Helsinki Aug. 1, and they agreed to push for accords on matters like cultural exchanges. The "nervousness and angst" between the two countries have diminished, U.S. officials insist, even if they have been replaced by stalemate. Said Shultz: "We heard each other out. I think that's very useful...
...Soviet attack; hence, a potential American shift from a strategy of deterrence to one of defense is frightening. Another fear is that the U.S. will spurn any Soviet offer to scrap significant numbers of missiles in the talks now under way in Geneva if the Soviets continue to insist that a halt to Star Wars research be included in any arms-control package. Such an impasse, warns one British official, could trigger "NATO's worst postwar crisis...
Just what role Washington wants the Europeans to play, however, is not at all clear. "Subcontractors!" exclaimed Mitterrand (in English) after listening to Reagan's pitch at the Bonn summit. "That was the word I heard. It confirmed my intuitions." Other government leaders insist that their countries want to be treated as full partners who will be kept apprised of major research developments and get to share in the technology. But a Pentagon briefing last week left officials of the British Defense Ministry with the impression that the U.K. would be . . . well, a subcontractor...
...Foundations of Sand, that she claimed to have co-authored. The book, written mainly by Lawrence Hafstad, a physicist and former vice president for research at General Motors, is filled with quirky racist observations. Many black men in U.S. ghettos "still hold to their African traditions," it says. "They insist on preserving their jungle freedoms, their women, their avoidance of personal responsibility and their abhorrence of the work ethic." Hall told the legislators she had not really co-authored the book, only "edited" it. As an editor, she claimed, "you don't need to understand what you're reading...