Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan refugees pouring into Honduras once could count on shelter in U.N.-sponsored refugee camps. Now newcomers who are caught are forcibly returned. Hondurans, with an unemployment rate of about 40%, insist they cannot accommodate this job-hungry tide of dispossessed Nicaraguans. With 12,000 armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support...
...party's left wing blames the loss on Dukakis for trying to run from his ideological roots. They insist that, had Dukakis made a cogent defense of liberalism and inspired voters, rather than allowing Bush to distort the word "liberal" into a verbal cudgel roughly equivalent to "child molester," he could have beaten Bush. "Next time," they say, "we shouldn't hide our liberal colors...
...some legal experts argue that high-speed chases help maintain respect for the law. Says Sergeant Jim Mattos, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol: "As soon as you develop a policy of no chases, then the only people who are going to stop are the honest ones." Moreover, supporters insist, many chases end in the capture and arrest of serious criminals. Asks Donald Schroeder, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan: "If it were the Son of Sam in the car that you were chasing, would you let him get away...
Military sources insist such actions are fully justified and claim that Cherry (the West Bank unit) and Samson (the Gaza unit) have arrested dozens of leaders of the uprising. They contend that all their operations stay within the bounds of Israeli law. Palestinians, on the other hand, charge that the clandestine teams have been given a license to kill. Last month six Cherry men disguised as Arabs drove a van with West Bank plates into the Arab village of Yatta. When local Palestinians approached the car to identify the occupants, two of them were machine-gunned to death. Both victims...
...sorry to say that is true. If they insist that any Palestinian who - does anything anywhere is the responsibility of the P.L.O., then I have to blame the American President for the Mafia, as an example, or for many Americans who are committing crimes and making mistakes...