Word: nevertheless
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...idealists and intellectuals who resisted the Hanoi takeover were imprisoned or killed, Toai says. Nevertheless, he adds he still believes in the NLF's ideals before the North Vietnamese takeover. "The former leaders of the NLF were the true idealists and revolutionaries and they were betrayed by the North Vietnamese Communists, who were afraid of their popular support," Toai says. "The American people think the Hanoi Communists started a true revolution, but we have a duty to let them know this is only a pretended revolution...
...relations firm of Norman, Lawrence, Patterson, and Farrell, Inc. to shore it up. And although the State Department cited the Nicaraguan government for several human rights violations in the early days of President Carter's May 1977 crusade, 12 million dollars in economic aid in 1977 and 1978 were nevertheless added to a total of more than $300 million that Nicaragua has received from the U.S. government since the second World War. The reason was that some of Somoza's powerful friends in Congress, notably Representatives Charles Wilson (D-Tex.) and John Murphy (D-N.Y.), Somoza's roommate...
...leaders. Howard M. Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, concluded guardedly that "Brown says the right things." During a three-hour dinner with Mayor Edward Koch, Brown impressed one of the mayor's aides as being "neither flaky nor overly philosophical; he's a good politician." Nevertheless, Koch, long a Carter supporter, indicated he still favored Carter over Brown...
...League students, who knew each other from high school back in Harverford, Pa., to have a reunion financed by their student governments. The rumor, strangely, seemed credible--all these people could do was pass resolutions, talk for hours on end to no purpose, and argue about procedure. Nevertheless, 20 Harvard-Radcliffe students thought it worth their time and effort to do the research necessary to prepare reports for each of the eight committees of the conference, and then go down to Philadelphia for the four-day meet...
Last week Byrd won a change in the rules that should end such stalling. To be sure, he had to accept a number of weakening amendments sponsored by Republicans. Nevertheless, the new rule gives the Senate an effective tool for eventually silencing itself. Once cloture is invoked, the total time spent on more motions and amendments on the same bill cannot exceed 100 hours...