Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prime target of official ire is a ragged, typewritten newsletter called the Chronicle of Current Events. The organ of the loosely knit Democratic Movement in Russia, the Chronicle provides accurate and exhaustive news of the arrests and trials of dissidents that are not reported in the official press. In spite of frequent efforts by the KGB (secret police) to halt the Chronicle's widespread underground circulation, 27 issues have appeared regularly since publication began in 1968. The KGB recently stepped up its drive to stamp out the journal. Scores of suspects have been rounded up and interrogated...
...budget for the Department has remained the same as last year's in spite of increased expenses, Guinier said. He said that the shortage of funds in the Department has forced him to staff the library with work-study students...
...command ship Endeavor while his crewmates explored the lunar surface. Since his return, he has been moved to put his feelings about space flight into verse, some of it deeply personal and soul searching. Worden's new interest is only one example of an extraordinary postflight phenomenon. In spite of their undeserved reputation as unemotional automatons, many of America's 32 space travelers have been profoundly moved by their experiences away from earth. In some cases, they have returned to begin entirely different lives. Says Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart: "I am not the same man. None...
...spite of the recent losses, the Air Force says that it has no intention of grounding the F-111s. Before the fourth plane went down Air Force Secretary Robert Seamons insisted: "We have flown over 1,000 missions out there and three losses in a thousand in combat, while flying tougher missions than any other aircraft over there, is notable. We have no plans to stand down the aircraft." U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff General John D. Ryan recently returned from Ta Khli Air Force Base in Thailand and told TIME, "The crews are still eager, and they're still...
...spite of Ebert's pro-Mysteclin testimony, the FDA decided to prohibit the sale of the commonly prescribed drug. The FDA had nearly withdrawn the drug in 1969 after a National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council panel declared Mysteclin-F to be ineffective...