Word: proof
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Vladimir Shustov, a disarmament expert at the Soviet mission to the U.N., denied the U.S. charges, describing them as "sheer invention from the beginning to the end." As proof, he cited a U.N. report due to be released this week. The result of trips to Thailand and Pakistan by a seven-man team, the U.N. investigation was undertaken when the U.S. expressed dissatisfaction with a previous U.N. probe that yielded inconclusive results last year. The latest report concludes lamely that the investigators "could not disregard the circumstantial evidence" indicating "possible" use of biochemical weapons. But the team led by Egyptian...
...collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador Dali, which were commissioned by Walt as "inspirational sketches" for his animators. At the studio, "fine art" was stressed. As one executive had it, "If it works in a Rubens it must work in Donald Duck." Proof is offered in the book's juxtaposition of Renaissance sketches with drawings from the early Snow White and Pinocchio, to the still unfinished feature The Black Cauldron. The comparison holds; these oversize pages contain small masterpieces of illustration that deserve a place on museum walls. Onscreen, the cartoons went...
Timerman may be right. But he never adduces a shred of evidence to prove government wrongdoing. He writes of Sharon. "He has been lying for several weeks, and the proof is irrefutable." And satisfied with this condemnation, he doesn't mention a single statement of Sharon's, much less prove it a fabrication...
...grateful for being recognized as one of the leading manufacturers of equipment that provides tamper-proof seals. However, in your story "Tylenol Legacy" [Nov. 1], you reported that Pillar Corp.'s 1981 sales were $2 million. The figure should have been $20 million...
...arid surface concealed a "large river without water." Last week a team of scientists from the U.S. and Egypt announced that they had definitive evidence that long ago a region of the vast desert in southern Egypt and northern Sudan was a lacy network of major water ways. The proof: radar images of the Sahara taken by the space shuttle Columbia...