Word: nevertheless
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...Nevertheless, the bombing of Tripoli should not be the first page in a new chapter of Western responses to terrorism. On the night of the raid, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations missed the point when he argued that America should adopt Israel's policy and respond to each terrorist act militarily. First, Israel's policy has not ended terrorism; and second, such a policy would require a level of resolve and military intrusion into daily life that the people of this country are unlikely to tolerate...
...into the nation's top grownup on his way to work in the Oval Office. "Our children, children anywhere, cannot live happily while there are nuclear weapons on earth," she told the Commander in Chief, who said that ending the threat of nuclear war would make him happy too. Nevertheless, TASS later complained that the meeting had been orchestrated "in such a way as to make it appear that the President ran into the eleven-year-old girl by chance." Seemingly, Moscow's decision to send Katya on the peace mission did not much dampen even the war of words...
...police-union poll taken last fall showed that 91% of 481 officers who responded rated the chief's performance as "poor" or "below average." Morale on the force, 90% of whose members are men, is still falling. Nevertheless, Harrington argues that her policies will bring long-term results. To her critics, she says cuttingly, "The kind of people who are in law enforcement for the excitement are very much opposed to what I'm trying...
...Philippines, is strikingly well disciplined and unlikely to split into factions. Most of all, the South Korean economy has boomed even as the Philippine economy collapsed. While 20 years ago the average Filipino earned almost three times as much as his Korean counterpart, now the figures are exactly reversed. Nevertheless, many Koreans have taken heart at the sight of a right-wing dictator undone by nothing more forceful than U.S. pressure and peaceful protest. "They know the parallels with the Philippines are not there," says a Western diplomat in Seoul. "But they are taking encouragement from it anyway...
...Midway it was not. And the helicopters whirring toward the battle zone in Honduras were not transporting American troops. Even the symbolism was curiously muted by partial pretexts --about concern for freedom of the seas and Honduran sovereignty--that served to blur the true aims of the actions. Nevertheless, in the wake of American-aided democratic triumphs in Haiti and the Philippines, the Administration last week was clearly feeling confident, seeking to show once again that the U.S. is willing to assume some carefully limited military risks...