Word: insists
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...Kuwait Investment Office is friend or foe. Reason: the Kuwaitis are still buying BP shares -- with an enthusiasm that has raised suspicions in Britain. Kuwait has spent some $1.9 billion, bringing its stake in British Petroleum up to 22%, to become BP's largest shareholder. The Kuwaitis insist that they will not seek a seat on BP's board. They initially promised not to raise their stake above 22.5%, but Fauad Jaffar, deputy chairman of KIO, seemed to waffle on that pledge during a recent television interview. Said he: "If the situation changes, obviously any investor must have an open...
...with the National Civic Crusade, a coalition of business and professional groups that has demanded the general's departure. In return for stepping down as military chief, Noriega apparently wants to remain in Panama and to have a voice in reshaping the armed forces and the government. Crusade members insist that the general leave the country permanently...
...kept out. The U.S. is not a balloon that will burst if 6000 more people enter it. It is also hard to believe that we are reducing aid to refugees who just 13 years ago were our allies in a civil war we helped fight. Why do we insist on keeping the outsiders outside...
...Noriega does agree to leave, he will probably insist that a transitional government be in place before he departs and that the Defense Forces remain intact. Although the U.S. might be willing to give him those assurances, Administration officials face another hurdle: Noriega does not trust them. "The way he sees it, he was loyal to the U.S. for many years. After all that, he was betrayed," says a former Panamanian official. In fact, despite the feelers Noriega has sent to the State Department and the Pentagon, he continues to vow publicly that "the only way this general is leaving...
Unlike the United States, which claims a three-mile territorial limit, the Soviet Union claims that its territory extends 12 miles beyond its shores. U.S. officials recognize that limit but insist on the right of "innocent passage," in this case from one side of the Crimson Peninsula to the other...