Word: nevertheless
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...Nevertheless, Sharansky's memoir has no happy ending. The brutal treatment of prisoners he describes has scarcely been tempered by the reformist policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. If the General Secretary is serious about extending glasnost and perestroika to all Soviet society, he will see to the publication of Fear No Evil at home. That would be a powerful impetus for restructuring the inhuman penal system he inherited from his predecessors...
Corbero's work looks fairly orthodox, nevertheless, beside that of the young Scotsman David Mach, 32, showing at the Barbara Toll gallery (also through June 11). There is one object on view. It fills most of the gallery. It is called A Million Miles Away and is made from some 28,000 magazines -- surplus copies of House Beautiful, Esquire, Town & Country and the like -- spilling in a torrent from a fireplace, across the floor and through a wall and another fireplace. Embedded in them are a bathtub, a stuffed zebra and what must be the world's largest outboard motor...
...Nevertheless, according to those to whom Ghorbanifar spoke, the Iranian is now saying he came away from the hostage transaction with millions of dollars in fees from the French, a claim that is hotly disputed. "Manucher can barely make rent these days," says a relative. Chirac has denied making payments to free the hostages. A member of the Chirac camp well briefed on the hostage case called Ghorbanifar's story a "big fat joke...
Both provisions are amendments to defense authorization bills. The more workable and sensible Senate version is likely to prevail. Nevertheless, it gives to the military a far greater role than it wanted in drug interdiction. The Pentagon, eager to avoid the nasty work altogether, yielded to pressure . from the White House to accept it. One objection: law enforcement is traditionally a civilian function in a democracy. The military also contends that the costs would be high, the peripheral training from the new duties would not be relevant to preparing for war, and the Air Force does not have the right...
Sullivan denies being the source of any of the leaks. "The allegation is categorically, simply, flatly not true," he told TIME. Nevertheless, officials on Capitol Hill point to further indiscretions. One states that Sullivan has repeatedly used secret material on arms control in letters written for Helms and other Senators. "He's got a reckless disregard for the proper handling of classified information," says the official. Sullivan says there is no truth to these allegations...