Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Privately, Carter's aides charged that Kennedy had broken an agreement to wait behind the podium, then step out dramatically to be introduced as soon as the President's speech had ended. "Where's Ted?" asked Carter as the demonstration proceeded. But Kennedy's aides insist he did precisely what the President's men wanted, staying in his hotel until Carter had finished speaking, thus not attracting TV coverage away from the speech. The bitterness lingers. Said a Carter aide about Kennedy's appearance: "He wanted to put that last wound into us. He hurt us and he hurt himself...
While publicly ordering Carter delegates in California to stay with the President on the rules issue, State Treasurer Jesse Unruh, leader of the Carter forces in his state, privately urged the President's men not to insist on the binding rule. Former California Senator John Tunney, a Kennedy backer, charged that "party politicians in Washington don't sense the incredible subsurface tremors abroad in the country. They don't know how weakened Carter is." Claimed Pollster Mervin Field: "If Carter doesn't open the convention, the nomination will be all but worthless. It will only exacerbate...
...known in 1976 that it would deliver a nuclear-power research facility to Iraq. The big question: Is France selling technology that could be used to produce an atomic bomb? The French, of course, say no, as do the Iraqis. But the Israelis, who would be most directly threatened, insist that Iraq could accumulate enough expertise and enriched uranium to make several nuclear weapons by the mid-1980s. Jerusalem has mounted a campaign to alert Western Europe and the U.S. to what it considers a mortal danger. Israel's Transportation Minister Haim Landau went so far as to accuse...
There is, however, the other school of thought: that Billy, whose home-town friends insist is "not as dumb as he appears," conned the Libyans into giving him-or loaning him-the money although he knew he had no influence over U.S. foreign policy...
Carter strategists insist that so far Kennedy has not won over any of the President's 2,500 delegates and alternates. Campaign Research Chief Martin Franks says optimistically, "Our delegates are true believers." The question is whether the Carterites will stay true blue for the two weeks before the convention if the bad news continues to flow. Signs of uneasiness in the ranks were beginning to filter into the White House. Says one top aide, who is phoned by contacts all over the nation: "We're not getting any calls specifically saying, 'Oh, God, this is terrible...