Word: insists
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...soldiers of the Texas National Guard, playing the role of invading Sandinistas for the benefit of Honduran pilots, who carried out mock bombing and strafing runs against them (see box). Officially, the maneuvers are not even war games, just joint "training exercises." Pentagon officials go so far as to insist, with resolutely straight faces, that last week's "tank battle" and next week's amphibious landing are not directly linked...
...longer inhibits all thought of projecting U.S. military power overseas, it still haunts every specific decision. In the Middle East, Weinberger's fears of entrapment in a drawn-out conflict fought without public support caused him at first to oppose sending Marines to Lebanon and then to insist on their withdrawal after terrorist attacks left 266 U.S. servicemen dead. Shultz objected that the pullout would undercut U.S. diplomacy in the area, and still regards it as a mistake. But Ronald Reagan ordered the withdrawal anyway and won the approval of voters, even though critics portrayed the pullout as a national...
Slotnick tartly described the outcome as the result of "a very zealous presentation." Morgenthau did not deny that his office had been more aggressive the second time around. "There wasn't new evidence," he said, "until we looked for it and found it." Goetz's lawyers insist that there was no actual new evidence...
White House aides hailed the latest MX vote as a signal success. A loss, they said, would have put a dent into Reagan's mandate and given Congress a psychological edge in the months ahead. For their part, the lawmakers insist that the MX vote will not put them at a disadvantage in coming battles. Said Democrat Leon Panetta of California: "By putting that much emphasis on this issue, the Administration undermined others. This may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for them...
...Students insist that three companies in which the University of Massachusetts invests do business in South Africa. Stover said, but added that the university has determined that this is not the case. In response to student protests. UMass trustees decided yesterday to discuss divestment at a future meeting...