Word: insist
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...called football -- the satchel containing launch- authorization codes -- was in the hands of the junta, raising concerns that its leaders might, in desperation, do something rash. And now, with at least the partial breakup of the U.S.S.R. a certainty, fears are growing that some of the seceding republics may insist that the weapons remain on their soil, in effect creating a new nuclear power with every declaration of independence. Wondered French government spokesman Jack Lang last week: "Will every republic have at its disposal a little atomic bomb, some of them equivalent to one or two Hiroshimas...
...time Noriega gets done with the system, this case will do more damage to American justice than he could possibly have done as a dictator," complains New York University law professor Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Justice Department officials insist that the deposed tyrant will be tried strictly on the merits of the indictment, but some in Washington admit that the trial is profoundly political. "The guy was a de facto head of state," says an Administration official. "So how can you say the trial isn't political...
Catholic administrators insist they have responded as well as can be expected to the legal and pastoral tangle confronting them. A common complaint is that the U.S. bishops' conference has not set up a detailed nationwide policy and action plan. But Mark Chopko, the chief lawyer on the bishops' staff, says treatment of priests' problems is the business of each diocese. As a result, some bishops have handled the cases well, while others have...
Could the West's condemnation of B.C.C.I. as a criminal bank be attributed at least in part to a profound clash of cultures? That is precisely the case, say experts familiar with banking in the Middle East and Asia. They insist that many B.C.C.I. practices that the U.S. and the rest of the developed world call reprehensible are merely traditional operating procedure in the eyes of Muslims...
...considerable understatement, Baker added that there was "some work" to be done to secure the cooperation of the Palestinians, who still insist that they will choose their own delegation without interference and that a representative of East Jerusalem must be included. With all the major Arab states, plus the Soviet Union and other European nations, ready to talk peace, the Palestinians may have no choice but to acquiesce to Shamir's formulation. Jordan's King Hussein has appealed to the P.L.O. not to raise problems over Palestinian representation. And Egyptian Foreign Minister Amre Moussa is seeking a possible compromise: Arab...