Word: insist
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Further face-offs seem inevitable. Iraq will continue to try to undermine the U.N. sanctions that hobble its economy; the U.S. and its allies will insist that Iraq bow to international law. In such a charged atmosphere, war by miscalculation cannot be ruled out. Nor can war by design. Some Clinton aides grimly await their "October surprise" -- a confrontation with Saddam that could rally the country around Bush and give him a boost at the polls on Election...
Saddam's taunts are aimed at eroding the coalition's resolve. But Western officials insist they are having the opposite effect. They say Saddam's gamble that Europe is too distracted by the Yugoslav quagmire and President Bush too immobilized by his tough re-election fight to risk military action is a grave miscalculation. "If Saddam does not quickly comply with U.N. demands," says a senior British diplomat, "an attack is almost certainly on. We are not going to wait long." (See related story on page...
President Bush may insist he is standing by DAN QUAYLE, but Congress is determined to take away the Vice President's biggest stick, his Council on Competitiveness, which reviews (and often pares) government regulations. Critics argue that Quayle's group is subverting Congress's intent by rewriting regulatory language. The House has voted to strip $86,000 -- roughly equal to council director David McIntosh's salary -- from White House funds. The Senate may go further this week by forbidding any expenditure of money for the council...
...actual mechanism is less important than the reasons for what White House aides are already calling "the big switch." Chief among the problems is Bush himself: the President is an undisciplined campaigner who is prone to sloppy mistakes without a full-time minder. He continues to insist, for example, that Americans are wrong to think the economy is sputtering, even though his own Administration's statistics prove them right and him wrong. "Bob Teeter, Fred Malek and Sam Skinner are all too nice," said an official, referring respectively to Bush's campaign managers and chief of staff. "We need somebody...
Since the Libyan press is at least as tightly controlled as the parliament, experts suggest Gaddafi himself might be orchestrating the change in policy. If he is, the suggested offer still falls short of demands from the U.S. and Britain. The two insist that the Libyan intelligence operatives be tried either in Britain, over whose territory the bomb went off, or in the U.S. Still, the offer might confuse the issue enough to weaken international solidarity when the next round of economic sanctions against Libya is scheduled to take effect, in August...