Word: defeats
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Harvard now prepares to host a pair of weekend dual meets, Friday against Navy and Sunday versus Columbia. Navy stung the aquamen for a loss-Harvard's first in 32 consecutive dual meets--in last year's opener, and Columbia hit them for their only other defeat one day later...
...handgun stance and his support of the NRA seem an ironic turning of the other cheek, but the constitutional freedoms he invokes have hit home with voters, spelling major setbacks for advocates of gun control. If it was bleak for these activists after the 1980 conservative landslide, is it defeat after 1984's instant replay? Perhaps not, for two reasons. First, Reagan's short "coattails" did not produce a conservative sweep in the congressional races. Secondly, the repercussions of the victory have jolted handgun control activists into the daring shift toward local politics, a change that may save their cause...
Reagan's reelection climaxed a streak of setbacks to handgun control activists that includes a series of stymied gun control bills introduced during the seventies by legislators such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), Reagan's election in 1980, and the resounding defeat of California's handgun-restricting Proposition 15 in 1982. The NRA has shot down the activists on all fronts. Seemingly they have nowhere to turn...
...armed forces of King Hassan II of Morocco have gained the upper hand in their almost nine-year struggle with the Marxist guerrillas of the Polisario Front for control of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Last week, however, Morocco suffered a major diplomatic defeat. During a four-day summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a majority of the 50 states in the Organization of African Unity agreed for the first time to seat the Polisario Front as a full member. An angry Hassan responded by pulling his country out of the O.A.U...
...point, could hold him off. As it grew probable that Minnesota would spare Mondale that ignominy, the emphasis shifted to the size and, secondarily, the meaning of Reagan's "mandate" in the House and Senate. Then came the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat: a genial acceptance speech by Reagan after a moving concession by Mondale. Through it all, the same anchors who had said the outcome was settled kept plaintively urging people in states where polls remained open to get out and vote...