Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detailed discussion at Aswan about Israeli-Egyptian military or strategic cooperation-which would make Sadat even more of a pariah to his Arab colleagues than he already is. Besides, noted a senior Egyptian official, "we must concentrate on solving the Palestinian problem before thinking about military strategy." The Israelis insist that autonomy means only a limited measure of self-rule for the Palestinians; the Egyptians argue that there must be steps of substance toward the ultimate goal of independence for the West Bank and Gaza...
...objectivity. But why should a confessed liberal writing about Leftist movements by any more suspect than a CIA-sponsored professor writing about foreign policy or a member of the privileged class setting down his version of the history of the American people? Indeed, it would be ridiculous to insist that this book be purely objective. Like Walter Cronkite reading the casualty reports during the Vietnam War, the author's feelings do occasionally overcome his carefully documented (some 40 pages of notes and sources) facts. But the subject does not lend itself to objectivity. And who is to say which...
...Khomeini, the essence of the mystic attitude is detachment?serenity in accepting and preaching God's will. He does feel emotion; intimates insist that with students and his family, he weeps, laughs and even cracks jokes. In public, however, Khomeini will not permit himself to display joy, sorrow, rage or any other emotion. His angriest words are delivered in a soft, uninflected voice that seldom rises above a murmur...
...that Valium and other so-called minor tranquilizers may produce bad side effects. They may cause confusion and temporary memory loss, especially among people over 60. Habitual users risk what Kennedy called a "nightmare of dependence," or outright addiction. Roche officials concede that Valium can be habit-forming, but insist that most people who claim to be hooked on it have actually been addicted to alcohol or other drugs. They also say that U.S. doctors prescribe tranquilizers too casually; though Western Europe's population is greater than the U.S.'s, American physicians prescribe Valium twice as often...