Word: insists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia carrying the first installments of a promised 500 tanks, 200 MIG-21 and MIG-23 jets, and several hundred self-propelled artillery pieces. Meantime, Russian peace proposals, such as the one made public last week, reiterated Arab demands for prior return of their occupied lands, while the Israelis insist on discussing only a package settlement...
...seeing. (Problem, of course: some will lose the present moments in anticipation of the future moments. That is how most of us live our lives. That is how some will watch this movie. Tell us a story, please. Lead us to the end. Perhaps my purpose here is to insist that 3 Sisters does not march. It is not a murder mystery, although someone is murdered. No one is apprehended, nothing is resolved. The final statements are made in silence.)...involve us in seeing the moments. You will find that as the black magic and deathly wonders slide overhead...
...should now behave toward the Soviet Union. Some argue that the U.S. should scuttle all attempts at detente and arms control to protest the Russians' behavior. To be sure, an evenhanded strengthening of NATO's conventional defenses is in order, and the U.S. must insist on foolproof surveillance clauses in any nuclear-arms-reduction treaty. London Historian Walter Laqueur points out: "As Soviet foreign policy becomes less Communist in character, it also becomes less predictable and rational. The ideological appeal of Soviet Communism no longer exists, but the Soviet Union still has built-in drives toward expansion...
There was a measure of merit in both men's arguments. Yet, while the quarrel went on, the ones who suffered most were those whom both Shanker and McCoy insist they want to help: the children in the classroom...
...failure of four others to maintain class discipline, unspecified opposition to the decentralization experiment by others. A retired Negro judge appointed to hear the cases found that witnesses could not document incidents or convincingly detail the teachers' failings, recommended that the ten be retained. McCoy insists that they cannot return. Shanker and the central school board insist that they must. The U.F.T. fears that decentralization would break up its power base and leave teachers vulnerable to the whims of unstable local militants. On the other side, there is the justifiable-but unprovable-contention of Negro parents that too many...