Word: setback
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Washington's drug war received a stunning setback two weeks ago when Colombian Billionaire Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, 38, a reputed drug baron, strolled out of Bogota's La Picota prison armed with a writ for his release signed by a Colombian judge. Ochoa's ruthlessness is legendary; after the coke magnate was arrested in 1984 in Spain at the DEA'S request, threats made against the lives of Americans residing in Bogota became so widespread that U.S. embassy children were evacuated. Extradited to Colombia in 1986 on a bull-smuggling charge, Ochoa was improperly released in August and eluded authorities...
That was the dominant view in Washington. Hours after Namphy disbanded the electoral council, the Reagan Administration suspended $62 million in economic aid to Haiti and shelved a pending $4 million military allocation. Reeling from the crushing setback to U.S. policy, the Administration also urged that new elections be held quickly and that those responsible for the violence be prosecuted. Still, the Administration was careful not to accuse the Namphy government publicly of subverting the elections...
...History Department's search to tenure its first senior Americanist since 1980 suffered a setback recently when one of its prime candidates, a Columbia University historian, told Harvard he would prefer to stay at his present school...
...chief was fired from his job. He can also expect to be stripped of his nonvoting seat on the 18-member ruling Politburo. He thus became the first high-ranking Kremlin official appointed by Gorbachev to tumble from grace, a milestone that at first seemed to point to a setback in the Soviet leader's own political standing. But two days after Yeltsin's downfall, in a display of glasnost unprecedented even in the Gorbachev era, the party paper Pravda ran a detailed account of the sacking. Starting on the front page and occupying the entire 16-column spread...
...Crimson (13-0-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) is the lone undefeated team in the league, while Yale is 5-1 after suffering a tough setback against Dartmouth late in the season. A Harvard win would give the booters sole possession of the title; a tie would give the Elis a share of the crown...