Word: insist
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...signals from the State Department are not helping. After months of tough rhetoric calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State James Baker said last week that the president would be willing to half hostilities if Saddam made "an unequivocal commitment to withdraw from Kuwait." Bush should insist that Saddam actually pull out of Kuwait completely before stopping the war effort. The U.S. should stick to the agreed-upon goals around which the coalition was formed...
...studies today receive intense independent scrutiny while they are under way, and thus the journal peer- review system may not be as necessary as before. Embargoing medical news until publication, they say, may actually put patients in greater jeopardy than allowing information to be released quickly. Though journal editors insist that the review process can be speeded up for urgent papers, they concede that sometimes an important report has gone unrecognized. For example, Yale University researchers sent a paper to the N.E.J.M. in October 1989 noting that patients with spinal-cord injuries who were treated with high doses of steroids...
...growing debate among scientists, 200 of whom gathered this month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., to air the issue. Traditionally, researchers have published their findings in medical journals, like the New England Journal of Medicine or the Journal of the American Medical Association. Supporters insist that this approach helps ensure credibility by allowing time to weed out sloppy science. Editors send submitted papers to outside scientists for comment, a system known as peer review. But the process can be lengthy. Between the time a paper is first offered and its publication, months or even more than...
...heavy hand of the Pentagon in a more direct fashion. In Vietnam reporters were free to travel almost anywhere they wanted in areas under nominal U.S. control. With the restrictive gulf pool system, military escorts stand by while a limited number of journalists conduct their interviews. Pentagon officials insist that the pools are intended to help reporters gain access and to avoid the nightmare of more than 700 journalists all trying to reach the front lines at once. "Having reporters running around would overwhelm the battlefield," says Colonel Bill Mulvey, director of the military's Joint Information Bureau in Dhahran...
...Arnett, the last American correspondent left in Baghdad, has been filing reports via satellite with the approval of Iraqi censors. Fears that his dispatches are being used for propaganda purposes surged last week, when Arnett reported that allied bombs had hit a plant that manufactured infant formula. U.S. officials insist that it produced biological weapons...