Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once you are caught in the snatches of the cult, you are going to find it very hard to get out. Someone is constantly with you, day and night. You cannot sleep. You cannot eat. You become part of the group. There are games like "love-bombing" which insist that you love everyone around you and hate the rest of society, particularly your parents. You are constantly indoctrinated... and eventually trapped...
...insurgents still face a host of problems, some of them self-inflicted. Despite the late Anwar Sadat's revelation that Egypt has served as a channel for the U.S. to infiltrate Soviet-designed weapons to the rebels, the mujahedin insist that they still rely primarily on what they can capture from their fallen or routed enemies. They have acquired from the outside, mainly the U.S., China and Egypt, some antiaircraft guns and antitank weapons, but not in sufficient quantity to neutralize the MiGs, helicopter gunships and heavy armor that throw such devastating firepower against rebel encampments and villages...
...with a dilemma. Should the U.S., in exchange for a Soviet pullout, press for a diplomatic settlement that might involve the formal recognition of Karmal's puppet regime and an end to outside support for the mujahedin? Or should Washington keep the covert military heat on and insist on unconditional withdrawal...
...five problems with the program in her speech to the convention. And she said this: "Some sympathetic observers have pointed out that rent control may not be the best or the only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better for a fundamentalist preacher to tell his flock that the whale didn't really swallow Jonah. Enacting rent control in 1970 was a tremendous struggle; maintaining it since...
Revolutionary leadership is a career that can attract only the deeply dedicated. Aloof, pensive, calculating, he took a long view, but he would also insist on achieving...