Word: insists
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...such prosecutions have been extremely rare. Teledyne paid a $13 million fine after pleading guilty to shipping cluster-bomb material to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, but that was an exceptional case. Even during the cold war, only professional smugglers suffered harsh criminal penalties. And White House officials insist the waiver did not get Loral entirely off the hook. If no criminal charges are brought, the Commerce Department could still impose stiff penalties. But since Clinton always has his eye on Gore's 2000 campaign--and Schwartz remains a go-to guy for the Democrats--nobody expects that...
...mourning in Springfield has not prevented second-guessing. Should the school have helped more? Should police have detained Kinkel when he was first caught with a gun? Officials insist they were following the law in releasing a juvenile with no criminal record to his parents. But Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco, asks, "If detention was not called for, where is the counseling? A child bringing a gun to school needs help." Now Kinkel will be tried as an adult, although under Oregon law he is too young to be subject...
...order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful as the Fat Boy dropped on Hiroshima. The ground shakes sharply beneath the village of Khetolai, cracking houses...
...actions like the nasty one Microsoft is accused of taking against Compaq--threatening its largest PC partner with the revocation of its Windows license if Compaq chose Netscape's Web browser, Navigator, over Microsoft's competing Explorer--clear violations of the law. Gates and his supporters, by contrast, steadfastly insist (cue the Star-Spangled Banner sound track) that every deal they've ever struck is just another example of the company's ongoing effort to give the American consumer more and more "functionality" at lower and lower prices...
...traced electronic-cash transactions and data-packed microchip cards [BUSINESS, April 27]. Both threaten individual privacy. Given the low priority that North American governments give to protecting personal privacy, it's doubtful that new laws will keep up with the increase in unauthorized data surveillance. We should at least insist that federal lawmakers preserve our right to continue to use hard cash or checks and that microchip identity cards not be forced on unwilling citizens. PAUL BOBIER Kitchener...