Word: insists
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...observing even though it was never ratified by the Senate, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are allowed to deploy one new missile system each. Moscow claims the SS-X-24 as its entry, Washington the MX. The Soviets, who now have six types of missiles in their ICBM arsenal, insist that the SS-X-25 is merely an updated version of the SS-13 and thus does not qualify as a new weapon or as a SALT violation. The Reagan Administration has disputed that point several times. In any case, said Secretary of State Shultz last week, the approaching mobility...
Reagan aides nonetheless insist that there has been no real change in the President. His beliefs, they say, are about what they always have been, and he is voicing them pretty much the way he always has, only more frequently, more publicly and with less filtering by the White House staff. Put another way, there is no new Reagan but there is a new Regan: Donald Regan, who swapped jobs with James Baker at the beginning of the second term to become White House chief of staff while Baker took Regan's old post as Secretary of the Treasury...
...Persian Gulf, is jeopardized as a result. The Soviets claim the right to have "fraternal" relations with Fidel Castro, whose rule they underwrite to the tune of about $11 million a day, but they accept no responsibility for his mischief making in Latin America and Africa. They insist on cosponsoring with the U.S. any negotiated settlement in the Middle East, while they continue to back the most radical Arab enemies of Israel. In Western Europe, they are trying, by a combination of political blandishment and military blackmail, to diminish and, if possible, supplant American influence. Is that particular aspiration consistent...
Such harshness has startled the Japanese and clearly left them shaken. Said one Tokyo banker: "There's a hurricane of anti-Japanese sentiment blowing that's reminiscent of the days when William Randolph Hearst played up the yellow peril." The Japanese insist that they are doing more than ever to encourage American firms to do business in their country. Last week the Japan External Trade Organization was host to a four-day fair for products of 250 small and medium-size U.S. exhibitors. Among them: Montana Log Homes of Kalispell, Mont., and AmLab International, a New Jersey maker of pharmaceuticals...
...Japanese insist rather lamely that U.S. products fare poorly not because of Tokyo's restrictions but because Americans have not taken the trouble to learn how to sell in the Japanese market. One oft-cited example: U.S. carmakers do not make a vehicle with the steering wheel on the right for Japanese highways. Detroit, scoffs a Tokyo official, seems to be convinced that "Japanese traffic moves the American way." U.S. carmakers call that a red herring. Detroit would happily switch the steering wheel if the Japanese would lower their tariffs and eliminate the mind-boggling inspection procedures that severely restrict...