Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communist officials still insist they have no more M.I.A.s...
Among the U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam who are still missing, all but eight are known to be dead. The Vietnamese, who have handed over the remains of only 74 Americans, insist that they have no more bodies to return. The U.S. admits that hundreds of dead servicemen are hard to trace because they were lost at sea or in the jungles of Laos, or were buried by peasants in unmarked graves. But the U.S. delegation, honoring a campaign commitment of President Reagan, called on the Vietnamese to give a better accounting of the missing servicemen...
...added, "I'm continuing to insist that the jail as a fire hazard...
Advocates of default insist that Poland's creditors have an unparalleled opportunity to pressure the Soviet Union by squeezing its troubled satellite. Says Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the investment-banking firm of Lazard Frěres: "For the first time in 25 years, the Western governments have a truly credible weapon in their armory, and that's control of the capital markets. The Russians can get technology elsewhere, and lots of people will provide them with grain. But nobody else can make the capital available." A default declaration might force the financially pressed Soviet Union to increase...
...would be deprived of any capacity to stall. Full authority made it impossible for me to refer any tentative agreement to the President for his approval?if only to buy time. I flashed a message to Scowcroft uncharacteristically objecting to the grant: "I must be in a position to insist to the Russians that I must pass proposals back to the President for his consideration. Any reference to full authority would undercut this ability...