Word: blows
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...loss, while it did not knock Harvard completely out of the Ivy League race, nonetheless dealt a serious blow to the squad's Ancient Eight (or in this case, Ancient Six) aspirations...
...quite different last week, as Goode testified before an eleven-member commission he had appointed to investigate city officials' handling of the episode, particularly the decision to drop a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the heavily fortified Move row house. The police hoped the explosion would blow an opening for their tear-gas charges; instead it ignited the fire. Claiming that he had been misinformed and disobeyed by then Managing Director Leo Brooks and Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor, Goode said, "They did not follow my directives...
...Egyptians." That prompted President Reagan's "Never" response, raising the public dimension of the crisis another notch. But already U.S. diplomats in Cairo were suspecting that Mubarak's outrage, while honest enough, was also part of a calculated effort to let the volatile Egyptian populace blow off steam over the EgyptAir incident. In the days ahead, Mubarak's tone would slowly moderate; meanwhile he staved off appeals from both left- and right-wing opposition parties calling for specific retaliatory measures against...
Arafat suffered a different blow to his credibility on Monday in London. There, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the cancellation of a planned meeting between himself and a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation, the first such meeting ever scheduled between P.L.O. representatives and a member of the British government. If the meeting had taken place as planned, it would have given a new measure of authority to the P.L.O. as the legitimate voice for Palestinian interests in the Middle East. Even though Arafat was not one of the P.L.O. representatives invited to attend, the gathering, if successful, would...
Arafat soon suffered another serious diplomatic blow. Under heavy U.S. pressure, including intimations that Reagan would cancel his own planned visit this week, the General Assembly backed away from a proposed invitation to the P.L.O. chairman to speak during the U.N.'s 40th-anniversary celebrations...