Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name of antiCommunism, may forge closer relations with the apartheid regime. That might lead the Pretoria government to continue stalling on independence for Namibia, slow any liberalization of apartheid laws hi South Africa and stir substantial anti-U.S. sentiment throughout black Africa. Haig's aides insist that no policy has been set and that the Secretary fully understands that the issue is too complex to be seen in simple East-West terms. Says one: "This Administration will surprise you on the Third World...
Haig is widely credited with having persuaded Nixon in the end to resign. There are still charges that Haig defended Nixon altogether too zealously, but most of those who dealt with Haig then insist that he preserved his own integrity and balance. Says Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor, of the many legal battles between them: "Haig never raised his voice. He was never ugly, and I said some things that could have made him hit the ceiling. He believed in Nixon [but in the end] felt he had been lied to; it hurt him" Nixon recommended that Gerald Ford...
...problem here is a critical one for the American people and for those who share our values. That is, whether or not we are going to continue to turn our back on these illegal interventions or whether we are going to insist-as we, the Executive Branch, have been doing-that the future of El Salvador must be up to the people of El Salvador. That is the issue...
Though the location may seem a little odd, the proprietors insist it was a natural choice. Instead of going to Boston's gallery-lined Newbury St., they chose the Square because "our objects are of interest to academic people," Derrick TePaske said...
...Edward H. Fitler Elementary School, an old building of dirty granite in working-class Philadelphia, teachers insist that boys and girls form orderly, separate lines when entering or leaving class. "Sure, it's old-fashioned and sexist," says School Principal William R. Crumley Jr., 47, "but our parents did it, and we do it." In fact, teachers, parents and pupils are trying to turn back the educational clock at Fitler, with strict student dress codes, tough grading and plenty of attention to individual students. One result: though Fitler is an urban public school with 35% white students, 45% black...