) Despite the PCI's firm stand against terrorism, the Moro incident left the party more isolated.

From late 1944 until early 1945, the Japanese launched over 9, 300 of these fire balloons, of which 300 were found or observed in the U. S. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were ineffective as weapons: causing only six deaths ( from one single incident ) and a small amount of damage.

Despite rumours circulating on social network sites, the incident was reportedly not linked to the riots taking place.

Despite Louis XI having ordered his ships to seize her on her journey, her convoy crossed without incident, reaching Sluys on the evening of the 25th.

Despite this incident and a lack of food, Grenville decided to leave Ralph Lane and 107 men to establish the colony at the north end of Roanoke Island, promising to return in April 1586 with more men and fresh supplies.

Despite the shadow that this incident cast over his later career, he continued writing ( producing Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans in 1987 ) and his work continued to be well received.

Despite the incident occurring over international waters, the Arab state's court finds Col. Masters guilty of trespassing over their territory and sentences him to hang in three days.

Despite his stoicism, Boniface was clearly shaken by the incident.

Despite Clamence's view of himself as a selfless advocate for the weak and unfortunate, he simply ignores the incident and continues on his way.

Despite Kingsford Smith being exonerated by an official enquiry, many sections of the media and public felt that the forced landing, dubbed the ' Coffee Royal ' incident after the brew of coffee and brandy which the crew had drunk while awaiting rescue, had been a publicity stunt and that Kingsford Smith was responsible for the deaths.

Despite the incident, the aircraft was again restored, flew to the Smithsonian, and was put on display.

Despite this, Drew Field set a safety record for the Third Air Force in 1945 after 100, 000 flying hours had been completed over a period of 10 months without a fatal incident.

Despite the incident having led the Secret Service to prepare for his return, Weaver was able to bypass security and meet the then recently inaugurated George W. Bush in 2001.

Despite such tight security, an incident occurred on November 17, 2002 in which a man apparently slipped through airport security at Ben Gurion Airport with a pocketknife and attempted to storm the cockpit of El Al Flight 581 en route from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, Turkey.

Despite the heightened security measures taken after this incident, another suicide bomber attack occurred on January 24, 2011, when an Islamist militant entered the terminal building and detonated a bomb in the arrival hall.

Despite the incident, he took the fourth place of the stage, and later on the fourth place of the whole Tour, 26 seconds down on Mark Renshaw ().

Despite these hits, Proby's UK career gradually lost momentum after a number of controversial live appearances — including a notorious trouser-splitting incident at a February 1965 show in Croydon, Surrey — led to performance bans by the ABC theatre chain, its TV namesake and BBC TV.

Despite this, the changes required by the service bulletin ( installation of a support plate for the handle linkage, preventing the bending of the linkage seen in the Flight 96 incident ) had not been implemented.

Despite his evident qualifications, it drew significant opposition ; his detractors cited the Fort Pickens incident as evidence that he was not strongly pro-secession.

" Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report which endorsed MacArthur's conduct.

Despite this incident, Keane bore no hard feelings against his manager, later claiming that he sympathised with Clough due to the pressures of management and that he was too grateful to him for giving him his chance in English Football.

Despite widespread condemnation, he later maintained in his autobiography that he had no regrets about the incident: " My attitude was, fuck him.

Despite this incident, della Porta remained religiously devout and became a lay Jesuit brother.

Despite his stoicism, Boniface was shaken by the incident.

Despite coup attempts in 1980, 1983, and 1988, Gayoom's popularity remained strong, allowing him to win three more presidential terms.

Despite 1983 constitutional amendments, which appeared to proscribe a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Forces ( PDF ), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life behind a facade of civilian government.

Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.

Despite the basic importance of the foreign language requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal ( 1983 ) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.

Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.

Despite being released during the North American video game crash of 1983, the arcade game, as well as the industry, were not affected.

Despite the cancellation in 1983 of the experimental Shanghai Y-10, China is still developing its civil aerospace industry.

Despite the CART / USAC divide, from 1983 to 1995 the race was run in relative harmony.

Despite becoming SDP President, she lost her seat in the 1983 general election.

Despite its name, Washington Mutual ceased being a mutual company in 1983 when it demutualized and became a public company on March 11.

Despite not winning a PGA Tour event in 1983, Nicklaus finished 10th on the PGA Tour money list, and passed a significant milestone by becoming the first player to eclipse the $ 4 million level in career earnings.

Despite initial success, Mission of Burma disbanded in 1983 due to Miller's development of tinnitus caused by the volume of the band's live performances.

Despite being found guilty of bribery in 1983, Tanaka in the early-to-mid-1980s remained a power behind the scenes through his control of the party's informal apparatus, and he continued as an influential adviser to the more internationally minded Nakasone.

Despite this, the arrondissement elected and was represented by the anti-immigration Front National politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, as a municipal councilor from 1983 to 1989.

The band used the label to release and distribute a number of cassettes and booklets by themselves ( see also Cassette Culture ), including their early demo recordings Be Happy Despite It All ( 1983 ), Another Year Of The same Old Shit ( 1984 ) and the ' cassette single ' " Common Ground " ( 1984 ), which was a benefit for striking miners ( see UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 )).

Despite earlier support by the late Ricardo Balbín, de la Rúa was defeated by Raúl Alfonsín for the UCR nomination for the presidency in 1983.

Despite constant illness, he produced a large amount of music, including important works such as the Second ( 1980 ) and Third ( 1983 ) String Quartets and the String Trio ( 1985 ); the Faust Cantata ( 1983 ), which he later incorporated in his opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten ; the ballet Peer Gynt ( 1985 – 1987 ); the Third ( 1981 ), Fourth ( 1984 ) and Fifth ( 1988 ) Symphonies ( the last of which is also known as the Fourth Concerto Grosso ) and the Viola ( 1985 ) and 1st Cello ( 1985 – 1986 ) concertos.

Despite the expansion of the auditorium to seat 12, 000 in 1983, seven Sunday services were insufficient to accommodate the entire membership.

Despite also touting a 900cc prototype water-cooled twin at the 1983 National Exhibition Show to attract outside investment, Triumph Motorcycles ( Meriden ) Ltd itself became bankrupt on 23 August 1983.

Despite being handsomely paid " under the table ", Botha was of the opinion that he could earn more in professional sport and thus he travelled to the United States in 1983 on the invitation of the American football team the Dallas Cowboys in order to try out as a placekicker.