Earlier this month, American delegates insisted on diluting a United Nations agreement to reduce illegal trafficking in small arms.

The delegates insisted on cheering the outcome of the adventure, waving and nodding to Tom and Clem.

The Soviet delegate to a conference on European migration held in Vienna in January insisted that a more probable figure was 1.5 million to 2 million.

The delegate, Sergei Lavrov, insisted that the diplomats had been beaten by the police.

Several delegates, in fact, insisted that they were spending aggressively.

Myanmar's delegate insisted that the American delegation should use the name "Myanmar", and appealed to the session's president to enforce that rule.

But the Syrian delegate to the United Nations, Mikhail Wehbe, insisted today that it was "high time" to lift the sanctions against Iraq.

The delegates insisted, and the general - who speaks English - made another telephone call to one of his subordinates in Dili.

The reference to socialism was added after a heated debate in which many delegates insisted that special mention should still be given to socialism and the ruling party.

The German delegates insisted that parliamentary demands, such as voting against war credits and withdrawal from ministries be excluded from the text.