Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most persuasive defense offered by Connecticut's Thomas Dodd in fighting Senate censure was that his colleagues judged him by standards that are unwritten and unresolved. Having rejected that argument by condemning Dodd, the Senate nonetheless is under considerable public pressure to produce an ethics code that provides explicit guidelines for members' behavior-and to do it soon. "Such a code is mandatory," says Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. "We all suffered." Predicts perennial Watchdog John Williams of Delaware: "We'll do it before we go home." Many Senators realize that the Dodd affair and other cases have...
Thieu, who takes a tough line toward negotiations with the Viet Cong, has been known to say: "First we beat the hell out of them, then we talk with them." Nonetheless, with a popularly elected government in power, with political stability reasonably assured, and with the army concentrating on the war, the less intransigent members of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front may decide sooner than anyone expects that the time has finally come to sit down and talk...
...even Pope Paul has admitted. Without question, too, archaic laws governing personal behavior still frustrate and hurt some of Catholicism's loyal sons and daughters-and few of Father Kavanaugh's readers will doubt that his concern for their human tragedies is both passionate and sincere. Nonetheless, many Catholics who hope and pray for renewal may have cause to suspect that Kavanaugh's angry and oversimplified criticism can only hurt rather than help the forces of change within the church...
...Arab boycott applies only to the U.S., Britain and, to a lesser degree, West Germany. By last week, only Libya among the major Arab producers had failed to resume shipments of at least some oil to other countries. Nonetheless, Arab oil, which supplied one-third of the world's needs until the outbreak of last month's Arab-Israeli war, was flowing at less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape...
Died. Ichiro Kiyose, 82, Japan's leading authority on criminal law, who nonetheless in 1948 lost to the gallows his most celebrated client, Wartime Premier Hideki Tojo, despite a stubborn argument that Tojo had merely acted in national self-defense; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...