Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-day appearance in a jammed House hearing room, guarded by 30 U.S. marshals, was nonetheless enlightening. Understandably jittery upon emerging from seclusion into the glare of Washington publicity, the scrawny ex-holdup man stumbled almost incoherently through a 90-minute statement that he had written himself. But as the more skeptical committee members questioned Ray, he turned out to be a patient, polite and cooperative, if unpersuasive witness. By contrast, his attorney, professional Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane, loaded his frequent objections to the questioning with such sneering sarcasm that he angered even the most sympathetic members of the committee...
...Rumania is not privy to the most sensitive intelligence traffic between Moscow and its more compliant satellites. Nor is Pacepa apt to be well informed about the Soviet army, because his country has not permitted the Warsaw Pact to deploy troops on its soil since the mid-'60s. Nonetheless, the defector can shed some light on subjects of interest to U.S. analysts -among them the question of how Rumania's counterespionage service guards against infiltration by the Soviet KGB. The Rumanians are probably asking themselves a similar question about...
...least 100 Charter 77 members have been forced to quit even the lowly jobs they were formerly allowed to hold. The movement's current leaders-Singer Marta Kubišová, Philosopher Ladislav Hejdanek, and former Regional Party Secretary Jaroslav Šabata-are under constant surveillance. Nonetheless, in a gesture commemorating the invasion anniversary, a small group of Charter 77 members managed to meet in secret this month with their Polish counterparts to discuss possible future cooperation...
...when Paul issued a revised set of rules for the election of his successor, the reformers were disappointed: the Cardinals alone would remain the electors. Nonetheless, the late Pope did ensure that the conclave to choose his successor would be different in important respects. Most notably, Paul greatly expanded and internationalized the College of Cardinals. There was also a renewed emphasis on secrecy, typified by Paul's exclusion of the assistants ("conclavists") who had attended the Cardinals during other elections; they were suspected, perhaps rightly, of being the source of past leaks and of lobbying for their...
Last Saturday his wishes were honored. At his muted, dignified open-air requiem Mass in St. Peter's Square there was no ornate catafalque. The ceremony had a certain grandeur nonetheless, flowing from those who came to pay homage: the more than 100,000 worshipers and the dignitaries from 104 nations, including Rosalynn Carter from the U.S., U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and hosts of high government officials and diplomats. Leaders of the "separated brethren" also attended, led by retired Archbishop of Canterbury A. Michael Ramsey. A folio of the four Gospels lay open on the plain coffin as Carlo...