Word: insist
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Assuming further negotiated cuts in Europe, the U.S. will have either a far smaller force in Europe or none at all. Pentagon planners sensibly insist that initial U.S. troop and weapons cuts be reversible, so that American forces could return quickly in the unlikely event of a hostile Soviet move. "We need at least another year to determine whether the Soviet conventional restructuring is irreversible," argues James Blackwell, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers...
Where to from here? Most likely, politics as usual: Congress will insist on a more enlightened use of Head Start's appropriation, and the President will | someday campaign against the Democrats for failing to accommodate the larger number of kids he was ready to help...
...until apartheid is abolished. That may be the most telling impact of the sanctions. Today most whites are eager to end the pain and regain a place among civilized nations. Yet they are also angry and resentful, blaming Americans in particular for what they see as rank hypocrisy. Many insist that the U.S. has lost, not gained, leverage over South African policies...
...Kashmiris' foremost grievance is that they have been cheated of democracy by New Delhi. State elections have rarely had even the appearance of honesty; the militants greatly escalated their fight after the 1987 balloting was blatantly rigged in favor of candidates backed by the Congress (I) Party. Many Kashmiris insist that New Delhi is bound by 1948-49 U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for the people of Kashmir to choose their future in a plebiscite; like the administration before it, Singh's government has ruled that...
...President held 33 full-blown press conferences and 15 informal ones, gave 54 interviews and delivered 320 speeches. In pouring an estimated 3 million words of explanation, encouragement and (usually) good humor on the heads of approving Americans, he made no major errors in fact. Or so insist his White House handlers, who conveniently forget a few trick turns like obscuring his secret overtures to China...