Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs offer several powerful counterarguments. How can Jerusalem demand that the P.L.O. accept Resolution 242 when Israel is flagrantly violating it by creating new settlements in the occupied territories? The Palestinians, moreover, insist that 242 is unacceptable, since it refers to them only as refugees and not as a people with national rights...
Says one observer: "The Saudis want a Palestinian state, but they wouldn't give a nickel to a radical one." Deeply fearful of Russian influence in the Middle East, the Saudis would almost certainly insist that the defense, finance and foreign trade of a Palestinian state be monitored or controlled by established Arab states...
...attacks and undergone two cataract operations, is not physically up to the job. Mills and Dent also criticize Ball's urge to go on expanding the estate by putting so much of its earnings back into the trust's varied enterprises and not enough into charity. They insist the will stipulates that earnings from the estate be used to aid the crippled children of Delaware, a research institute and a hospital. For starters, Mills and Dent want the estate to sell off St. Joe Paper Co. and use the income to help the estate-funded Alfred...
Tureen's plan was leaked to the public and part of the resulting furor stemmed from the fact that neither Gay Head nor the tribal council ever had fishing rights in Chilmark. Although Tureen and all members of the tribal council insist that the document was only a draft, to be used as a basis for discussion during negotiations between the taxpayers association and the tribal council, its release angered factions on both sides. Wenonah Silva, tribal council president, charged that the draft's release was an attempt at sabotaging the negotiations by disgruntled tribal council members. Certainly the public...
...Dayton has the same number of rooms but is bigger, newer and has a two-car garage. Phillips also had to sweat out his application for a mortgage loan. The problem is that he is burdened with alimony payments; taking them into account, savings and loan associations would insist that Phillips and his second wife, Marilyn, show a combined income of $39,000 to qualify for a $50,000 mortgage. They can do so only if Marilyn, who is an executive secretary in Dayton, lands a similar job in Jersey and earns $12,000 a year. Phillips got the mortgage...