Word: insists
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Americans, it is said, insist on reducing politics to show biz. And in the gulf, the theater of war was also, maybe mainly, a theater. As the New York Times's Malcolm Browne notes, "This war seemed to smell more of greasepaint than of death." In time, other odors may rise, as the nation weighs the war's cost in American dollars and Arab lives. But last week Schwarzkopf gave the U.S. a warrior to be proud of. Others might see glamour in the allied victory; he would carry the memory of the dead on his burly shoulders. His Great...
Kuwaitis today insist that the Iraqis were able to round up and execute large numbers of military and police officers because Palestinian informers led them to the right addresses. "Palestinians are no good," says Hiyam al- Bushehery, 24, a student. "They stood in the street and betrayed people at checkpoints. They told the Iraqis who was in the police...
WARS ARE NOT won and lost on the television screen. Members of the media have been trying to prove this to the American military for years, and they should continue to insist that their coverage of Vietnam did not prevent the U.S. from winning that war. Combatting unnecessary censorship in the Gulf and in future conflicts should not involve turning to Vietnam as the perfect example of an uncensored war. This only makes the press's accusations as absurd as the military...
...Canada groups such as Amnesty International have been arguing against Ng's return, but 100,000 Canadians have written to the government to insist that he be sent home. Says George Bears, a director of Victims of Violence, an advocacy group: "If Canada doesn't return Ng to the U.S. unconditionally, then Canada's status as a haven for capital-murder cases will be guaranteed." Concurs Bill Domm, a Member of Parliament: "We should not be judging the American justice system." In the U.S., argues Ward Campbell, a California deputy attorney general, "we have a system for capital punishment that...
Leder's detractors insist that repeated studies have concluded the garage proposal to be environmentally sound. They charge that Leder's motives are strictly personal...