Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secretary of State Alexander Haig notes that U.S. policy toward South Africa is under review, but Administration officials insist there is no major shift in the works. They do say, though, that Ronald Reagan's dealings with South Africa "will not be exactly the same" as Jimmy Carter's. "You have to realize that there are elements of change in South Africa," says one State Department analyst. "We must reinforce them and speed them up." Blacks and whites in Africa are waiting anxiously to see how that translates into deeds...
...those who stand on the front lines of the battle against crime insist all Americans must break out of their fortresses and join the fight-not in a physical way, which is foolhardy, but in a search for solutions. Drugs can be slowed, guns can be curbed, the criminal justice system can be improved, they say, if enough citizens turn their fear and anger into the kind of public pressure that will make a difference. Above all, the experts argue, citizens must care about their neighbors' safety as well as their own. Perhaps for too long America has persisted...
There can be no blinking away the fact that blacks are disproportionately involved in violent crime-both as offenders and victims. Although blacks constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, they make up 48% of the prison population. Civil rights groups insist that the judicial system is racially biased, but the evidence is not convincing. In violent crimes committed by a single person, the victims in a quarter of the cases claim that the attacker was black. Most crimes involve victims and criminals of the same race. That is true of 83% of all assaults and 70% of all single...
...Soviets claim cnly to have "access" to bases in Viet Nam. The installations there, they insist, are still very much in Vietnamese hands. Not so, say U.S. experts. Aerial photography has discovered that the Soviets are building and operating a support pier to tend the nuclear-powered submarines that frequently call at Cam Ranh Bay. In the past few months, communications intercepts have picked up voices speaking native Russian from the control tower at Danang's military airfield, also U.S.-built. Says Vice Admiral Sylvester Foley, a deputy chief of naval operations in Washington: "In Viet Nam, the Soviets...
Large numbers of students and parents, educators insist, will simply not be able to find the extra cash required. As Douglas Seipelt, president of the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, puts it, "The system is saying that if you're making $25,000 and you have two children, one in college, you should have $2,000 in your checking or your savings account to pay the college. In my opinion, it's not there...