Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refusing to demobilize their 27,000 fighters and allow UNTAC access to territory under their control. Their reason appears to be fear of UNTAC's liberating effect on their cadres and villagers. But their standard $ explanation is that they pulled out of the accord because UNTAC failed to insist on the withdrawal of all Vietnamese troops from Cambodia or to take control of the government in Phnom Penh, as required by the accord...
...DOOR IS NOT CLOSED YET, BUT THERE IS FINALly a move to narrow the entry. After months of seeking consensus, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling coalition and the opposition Social Democrats have come to terms on a revision of Germany's liberal asylum laws. The parties insist that the fundamental right of asylum for the persecuted has been preserved. But the new provisions will allow the government to turn away individual asylum seekers who enter Germany from a nation that observes the Geneva Convention on refugees. Prospective claimants passing through Poland or Czechoslovakia, for example, on their way to Germany...
Though there have been reports that NBC president Robert Wright favors Letterman for the Tonight job, NBC program executives insist they are happy with Leno and contemplate no change. Leno's ratings, they point out, are on the rise, from a low of 4.1 in August to 4.6 for the important November sweeps. That is still substantially behind Carson's 5.4 score of a year earlier, but it does include a slightly higher proportion of the young viewers most sought by advertisers. Opinion on Madison Avenue is mixed: some call Leno's performance disappointing; others are upbeat. "Leno is holding...
...schools have not escaped unscathed: BrownUniversity went to federal court this fall toexplain why it dropped two of its women's varsitysports in 1991. Brown officials insist these cutswere necessitated by budgetary problems. The caseis currently pending...
...enhanced choice system brings back stereotypes, as it might, then the administration will insist that lottery system be changed again in a few years. The administration's backlash against the failed systems which promoted choice might lead it to support complete randomization of the housing lottery...