Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your report titled "After the Vance Mission: Signs of Hope" [Feb. 28], you say that U.N. resolutions insist that Israel is entitled to "secure" frontiers. The fact is that U.N. Resolution 242 emphasizes the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every state in the area can live in security. Separate mention of Israeli security is to be found nowhere in that document...
Despite her often spartan life, luxury appealed to her and money used to preoccupy her greatly. Going out with young men in Shanghai, she insisted on paying her own way; when she was broke, she would insist: "This time you pay, but next time I pay." Once, on the way to a movie, a pickpocket stole her money. Rather than admit this to her escort, she fled and later took out a small loan at a bank; she was "ashamed to report," notes Witke, that she never repaid...
Spokesmen for Somoza insist that the bishops' charges are grossly exaggerated. Many campesinos, they explain, have not been killed, but simply fled their homes to avoid the fighting. U.S. Ambassador James Theberge, however, takes the reports seriously: "We have reason to believe that some of the allegations of human rights violations are accurate, and our concern has been made clear to the Nicaraguan government on various occasions in the past year...
Little Chance. Administration officials insist that since U.S. factories are operating at only about 80% of capacity and 7.5% of the labor force is unemployed, there is little chance that budget deficits will generate the excess demand that kicks prices up rapidly, at least through 1978. By then, Government economists expect to begin whittling down the deficit by a combination of budget cuts and increased tax revenues to be generated by a healthily expanding economy. In addition, Administration officials figure that the deficit for fiscal 1977 could wind up as much as $10 billion below the $68 billion officially projected...
...really tried to insist on my rights and demand what I thought was due me," says Marabel. "I wanted him to take me in his arms and tell me he loved me, but he was focusing on his work, his sports...