Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some U.S. officials fear that even unofficial talk of a U.S.-sponsored deal with the P.L.O. may provoke Israel into a final assault on Beirut, to smash the organization once and for all. These officials insist that the U.S. is concentrating its efforts on mediating a P.L.O. evacuation of Beirut, leaving the guerrilla group's long-range status to be negotiated later. The two issues, however, are not easy to separate...
...Weidenbaum, 55, informed the President that he wanted to leave his job as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in order to return to teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. Reagan accepted the resignation "with deep regret." The premature disclosure forced Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes to insist that Weidenbaum's resignation "is in no way connected with any policy situation whatever...
...film labeled a sex comedy should offer the truism "Marriage is the death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody Allen comedy should mosey for arid stretches without a well-turned gag. And no director should insist that actresses like Farrow and Steenburgen affect the wild ringlets and neurotic stammer of previous Allen girleens...
...does he insist on defending so aggressively defendants who are up to their ears in guilt? His answer is deceptively simple. There's nobody else to do it. The sad part is, he's probably right...
...Syrian government, already trou bled by internal dissent, scarcely wants to court the risks of playing host to thousands of Palestinian guerrillas. Moreover, the Syrians, who still have at least 35,000 of their own troops in Lebanon, may simply refuse to leave because of strategic considerations: they insist upon control of the Bekaa Valley in order to thwart any direct threat to Damascus. For the time being, it seemed less likely that a solution could be found that would involve taking President Reagan up on his offer to send a peace keeping force of Marines to Lebanon...