Word: setback
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...Congress. Through legal challenges, diplomatic maneuvers and public relations jabs, Nicaragua's Marxist-led government and the Reagan Administration have been fighting for the hearts and minds of the international diplomatic community. In this not-at-all-secret war of words, the U.S. last week suffered an embarrassing setback. The 16 judges of the World Court, in a series of firm decisions delivered from their imposing headquarters in The Hague, acknowledged Nicaragua's right to bring suit against the U.S. for its support of the contras and to seek damages for the guerrillas' activities. The case will...
...ruling from The Hague was the second propaganda setback for the U.S. in its dealings with Nicaragua since September, when the Sandinistas caught Washington off balance by abruptly accepting "in its totality and without modification" the draft of a regional nonaggression treaty. The proposed agreement had been produced by the so-called Contadora countries-Colombia, Panama, Mexico and Venezuela-and the U.S. had supported their deliberations. But Washington still has misgivings about the draft accord, namely about the lack of adequate verification and control mechanisms to ensure Nicaraguan compliance...
Barbra Streisand's 1983 film adaptation of his short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, produced a Hollywood extravaganza so removed from the original that he still finds the whole subject extremely painful. But that setback didn't dissuade Isaac Bashevis Singer, 80, from launching two new plays off-Broadway. A Play for the Devil is currently running in Yiddish at the Folksbiene Theater, and a dramatic adaptation of his story Shlemiel, the First just closed at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, has no illusions about the differences between drama...
This is the first major setback for PBA, which was founded in 1949 by Van Arsdale's father. He started out with flights in a four-seater plane from Boston to Provincetown, a resort community on the northern tip of Cape Cod. Three years later he opened up a Florida operation, based in Naples, to keep his planes busy during the winter. In 1980 Van Arsdale retired and turned over the successful company to his sons John, 40, and Peter, 36, who is currently president. The two siblings took off on an ambitious growth program that has expanded...
...view of union leaders, Mondale's defeat is only a temporary setback. "Labor will take a black eye on this," admits Kamber. "But four years from now, when it backs a winner, there will be stories about its amazing comeback." Indeed, the union brass seems eager to make early endorsement an established policy. "I haven't found anybody saying it shouldn't have been done," says Richard Murphy, legislative director of the 650,000-member Service Employees International Union. "I hope we do exactly the same thing next time." The danger, of course, is that the unions...