Word: insistences
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...GUARD SITTING in a plastic garden chair in the Gem Palace garage may or may not be listening as I spell my name for the second time. "Marie-Hélène. I'm here to see Mah-ree Eh-len," I insist, mindful that his reserve could be linked to the millions of dollars in jewels just upstairs. His wobbly head shake becomes more vigorous. "He only knows Gujarati. He says you can go up," a male voice calls...
...Washington said U.S. soldiers in Iraq "are required to comply with all U.S. laws and treaty obligations in their treatment of detainees. When there have been abuses those violations are taken seriously, acted upon promptly, investigated thoroughly, and the wrongdoers are held accountable." U.S. military officers in Baghdad insist they're following United Nations Security Council resolutions, the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law in their handling of suspects that American or Iraqi forces capture in military operations. They say each detainee's case is regularly reviewed both by U.S. officers and Iraqi government officials to determine if the person should...
...Congress decides, as a result of this, to review port security across North America," says Colin Robertson, an official at Canada's embassy in Washington. That could affect the large amount of container traffic at Canadian ports that ends up in the U.S. Transport Canada officials insist security at Canadian ports is as good as, if not better than, at American ports. Even so, Americans may get even more zealous about inspecting cargo arriving from Canada--underlining a growing divergence of views about how to vet port security...
...Bush Administration officials are readying a new intelligence briefing for council members on Tehran's weapons programs. It will rely mainly on circumstantial evidence, much of it from documents found on a laptop purportedly purloined from an Iranian nuclear engineer and obtained by the CIA in 2004. U.S. officials insist the material is strong but concede they have no smoking...
...Indeed, 2,200 partial-birth abortions are performed per year, the vast majority on healthy mothers with healthy fetuses. Yet the fact that something rarely occurs is not a valid argument for why it should be permitted, if it is otherwise morally reprehensible. Still, supporters of partial-birth abortion insist the Court has no right to make a judgment call that, in their opinion, should be up to the woman and her doctor as to how to best terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Considering the fact that there are laws restricting how much pain butchers (for lack of a better word...