Word: insist
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...deployed. The two sides are still at odds on how to define a weapons category known as ALCMs (air-launched cruise missiles). The U.S. wants air-launched rockets to have a range of at least 930 miles or more before falling into the ALCM category, and the Soviets insist that the range of 370 miles or more has already been agreed upon. Predicts a top U.S. START negotiator: "We'll get over it." U.S. negotiators hope to wrap up START negotiations in Geneva in time for the scheduled June summit meeting between Bush and Gorbachev...
...executives insist that Today's ratings sag does not imply a rejection of Norville. "Whenever there's an anchor change on a broadcast, there's always a reaction," says Tom Capra, who took over as executive producer last month. "Part of the audience is happy, part of the audience is sad, and usually the ratings drop." CBS This Morning also has a new executive producer, who is expanding the show's feature and entertainment coverage; the hope is that a new co-anchor will lure viewers to sample the broadcast at a time when they might be shopping for alternatives...
...them to feel safe." In Soweto he called unequivocally for "one person, one vote." But when asked whether the A.N.C. might be willing to ease that demand, he responded, "Compromises must be made in respect to every issue." Earlier, speaking directly to white fears and concerns, Mandela noted, "They insist on structural guarantees to ensure that the realization of this demand does not result in the domination of whites by blacks. We understand those feelings...
...hand in Cartagena. But tensions were further inflamed when in the heady days after Noriega's fall, the Pentagon clumsily leaked word of its plan to station an aircraft-carrier task force in international waters off Colombia's Caribbean coast to track suspected drug- smuggling aircraft. Though U.S. officials insist that Barco had privately approved the plan, the ill-timed disclosure aroused the Colombian press to dire warnings of a "yanqui blockade." The Bush Administration promptly backed down and assured Barco that no U.S. warships would be deployed until Bogota agrees...
...creation of a student-faculty "Advisory Committee on Free Speech" without specifying the composition or clearly defining the mandate and powers of such a body. The Faculty should make perfectly clear that student representatives should have parity with faculty members on the committee. The Faculty should also insist that the committee exist only in an advisory capacity, with no authority to arbitrate what forms of expression are acceptable or unacceptable...