Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking quarters in July 1967, in retaliation for the jailing of eight left-wing journalists for violating emergency regulations during last year's riots in Hong Kong. The Chinese, who once hinted that Grey would be released when the eight journalists were freed (they have been), now insist that 13 others seized since Grey's confinement must also be turned loose. Hong Kong authorities refuse to play the blackmail game...
...indefensible--not because the target happened to be us, the professors, instead of Dow. That these points should have to be explained to one's students is normal--I have learned enough from them, especially in the realm of moral concern and idealistic commitment, to insist in return, without condescension, that they learn some essional distinctions without which they will not be responsible citizens or even effective radicals. That one should have to teach these distinctions to a philosopher-colleague is more baffling...
...book, the widely hailed Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957), Kissinger emphasized the dangers of overreliance on the concept of massive retaliation and called for the adoption of a more flexible response-three years before General Maxwell Taylor made headlines with the same argument. There are those, however, who insist that the flexible-response approach has, in fact, made the U.S. more vulnerable to limited, "brushfire" actions since the threat of a nuclear riposte has been all but removed. Kissinger has also deplored the notion that the U.S. should seek to establish overwhelming military superiority over the Soviet Union...
...tanks that were seen to go up in flames." This remarkable event was entirely invisible to Israelis and foreign dignitaries watching the parade. When a $1,000,000 fire damaged Tel Aviv's Lydda Airport in October, El Fatah promptly took credit for setting it. The Israelis insist that the blaze was started accidentally by a welder's torch...
...also criticized the automakers, particularly for pressuring their dealers to sell cars rather than provide service. Auto manufacturers, who were not asked to testify, argue that 95% of their dealers provide adequate service but admit that the other 5% can give the whole business a sour reputation. Car dealers insist that they average less than 1% profit on repair work. Other repair shops, said Robert Straub, president of the Independent Garage Owners of America, "are struggling to stay alive"but his testimony rang rather hollow after the reports of the steep markups...