Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesia (which Kissinger pointedly referred to by its African name, Zimbabwe). At the same time, Kissinger called for South Africa to fix a definite timetable for self-rule in Namibia (South West Africa), the former German colony administered by Pretoria. As for South Africa, he said the U.S. will insist on an end to apartheid and "the institutionalized separation of the races...
Differing with Healey are such key labor leaders as Jack Jones, chief of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and Len Murray, T.U.C. general secretary. They insist that a 5% limit is feasible, provided it is matched by import controls and strict regulation of prices. But the government is opposed to curbs on imports, believing quite rightly that they would only provoke retaliation by other nations and choke off any chance that Britain has of an export-led recovery. Healey also wants to loosen rather than tighten price controls to give British industry sufficient profits to invest more heavily...
...Forest Hills. At the Arboretum the lilacs are in bloom and the crabapples and cherry trees are just finishing. The use of form and color should delight the eye of any aesthete. There is a display about the history, uses and so forth of the collection if you insist on an indoors definition of art. But the best exhibit is outside...
...guess the tactics of the other before the Derby begins and decide upon his own. Both jockeys will then have to make split-second decisions as to whether those best laid of plans will have to be abandoned. One danger is that if Bold Forbes and Honest Pleasure both insist on running full tilt from the start, they could go down in embarrassing defeat, even though the other colts are among the most miserable crop in memory...
...candidates, only George Wallace seems to get along without any regular economic advice. Staff assistants insist that Wallace does consult with economists but are unable to name any. Wallace once remarked: "I look around at all the other candidates who have these advisers advocating things that have brought us where we are. I think maybe I'll have a good truck driver, a good steelworker, a good little businessman and let them advise me." This unintellectual approach has failed. Wallace's campaign has stalled so badly that his days as a national power seem finished...