Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slow poison is poison nonetheless, and "minimal damage" amounts to gross environmental disturbance...
...Nonetheless, Washington is continuing its efforts to bring in both the Palestinians and Hussein. Ambassador-at-Large Alfred Atherton last week explained the Camp David proposals to a select group of West Bank and Gaza leaders; meanwhile, State Department officials drew up responses to a list of two dozen questions posed by Hussein about the agreements. The King was particularly concerned about the future of predominantly Arab east Jerusalem, whether Jewish settlers would participate in the self-governing authority for the West Bank, and the issue of who would exercise sovereignty over the area after the transition period ends...
...countercurrent of refugees is a mere trickle compared with the tide of 350,000 that swept into Portugal shortly before Angola became independent in 1975. Nonetheless, the reverse exodus is a sign that life in Angola is returning to some form of normality. According to reports from returnees who have resettled in various parts of the country, Angolan President Agostinho Neto's Cuban-backed government has finally prevailed over two rival revolutionary groups: Hoiden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
Smith had been invited by 27 Senators, led by conservative California Republican S.I. Hayakawa, who felt that he should have an opportunity to present his case to the U.S. public. The State Department had previously granted visas to Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. Nonetheless, State hesitated to give Smith an entry permit, on the ground that the U.S., which has honored the U.N. sanctions, considers his government illegal and has no diplomatic relations with it. After the delay raised editorial eyebrows and congressional hackles, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ordered that Smith be given a visa...
...suburbanites have much in common. The author describes them in one story as "the company of those people who were most free to develop their gifts." These fortunate few are much more significant than critics seeking raw social realism will admit. Well outside the mainstream, the Cheever people nonetheless reflect it admirably. What they do with themselves is what millions upon millions would do, given enough money and time. And their creator is less interested in his characters as rounded individuals than in the awful, comic and occasionally joyous ways they bungle their opportunities...