Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House, Carter and his assistants have avoided commenting on the Lance investigation. Last week Press Secretary Jody Powell cautiously said nothing that could be interpreted as defending or expressing confidence in Lance -and further fueled speculation that the President is trying to distance himself from Lance. Aides insist this is not the case. Says one: "He is just trying to show that he has no intention of interfering in the investigation." Presidential aides also say that Carter and Lance have not yet gotten together to discuss the comptrol ler's probe, though Carter was briefed on it last...
...borders on the Golan Heights and in the Sinai. That was nothing new. But what of the all-important West Bank of the Jordan River, on which the Arabs (and Washington) want a home for the Palestinians? Israel's hard-lining Premier Menachem Begin not only continued to insist that Israel must keep the West Bank but went even further than that: he announced a tough additional condition against "foreign rule" there. By that he meant that Jerusalem would not even go along with creation of a West Bank Palestinian enclave under Jordanian sovereignty-a formula that Begin...
Some Germans urged harsher criminal laws and increased police activity, but that aroused the specter of a fascist state, which the terrorists insist they already are fighting. Observed the Frankfurter Rundschau last week in an uncharacteristically black mood: "Everybody knows that Bonn is not Weimar. But occasionally we doubt whether the second attempt to establish a civilized state on German soil will succeed...
...Jesus is to be demoted from the Godhead, what faith remains? The authors do not want the sort of vague Christianity without Christ that Unitarianism has become since it dropped belief in the Trinity. Wiles sees two possibilities. The "stronger form" would avoid metaphysical claims about Jesus but insist that "his life and all that has stemmed from it" are essential to human faith. The "weaker form" would simply recognize the "contingent historical fact" that faith "came alive through the figure of Jesus" for those raised in Christian cultures. To another of the authors, Michael Goulder, a tutor in theology...
...complaints that the new supplements, plus the suburban editions, court the suburbs at the expense of urbanites, Times editors insist that the paper has not reduced the amount of money, staff or space it lavishes on New York City news. They also assert that