Word: nevertheless
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...Nevertheless, each new round of repression confirms for many in Managua and abroad that the Sandinistas are intent on gaining absolute control. "The state of emergency is part of a master plan to get obedience from the population," says Jaime Bengochea of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP). "Our rights never existed except on paper." Critics report that their phones have been tapped, their offices ransacked, their lives threatened. Hundreds of people have been detained, many of them suspected of collaborating with the enemy in contra-infiltrated areas. Like Reagan, many Nicaraguans and outside observers believe that such repressive...
Under Bok, Harvard has tried to use its financial and educational influence to bring about constructive change in the United States and abroad. Nevertheless, in the grand tradition of isolation he has naively maintained that the university should not compromise its preeminent commitment to graduating educated men and women...
...regime with which the U.S. still maintains diplomatic ties. In a speech last week, Shultz declared that Nicaragua could become "a Soviet and Cuban base on the mainland of Latin America, a regime whose consolidated power will allow it to spread subversion and terrorism throughout the hemisphere." Nevertheless, he offered a rational, carefully worded definition of the Administration's goals: "We want the Nicaraguan regime to reverse its military buildup, to send its foreign advisers home, and to stop oppressing its citizens and subverting its neighbors...
...Administration has insisted on taking a stubborn stance and forcing a showdown. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, last week quietly proposed to the White House that some compromise plan on contra aid be sought before any floor vote. He was turned down. Nevertheless, there was some feeling on the Hill that a number of centrist House Democrats could still be swayed. "Today, we'd win," said one Democrat. "In two weeks, Reagan may pick off just enough votes...
...Nevertheless, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici has promised to give an amnesty consideration in fiscal-1987 budget discussions. The committee has already rejected one unpalatable deficit cure. Last week it voted 16 to 6 against President Reagan's proposed budget. Six of the nays, just enough to have reversed the outcome, came from the panel's Republican majority...