Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to their ineffective press conference, the F.D.N. received another setback last week: the House of Representatives voted, 411 to 0, to bar the CIA from using funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. The Senate is scheduled to consider the bill this week. There is a loophole in the measure, however, that may make it only a symbolic gesture: the CIA could claim that it is using funds not for the purpose of toppling the Sandinistas but of stopping the flow of arms into El Salvador...
...only because both sides fear the economic carnage that would ensue. Tumlir even found a "silver lining" in the GATT meeting two weeks ago, which pitted U.S. negotiators against the European Community over the issue of agriculture subsidies. Although the meeting generally was regarded as at least a setback to world trade, Tumlir saw in the desperate last-minute efforts to prevent an impasse proof that the main participants recognized the grave consequences of total failure. Concluded Tumlir: "If everybody were as pessimistic as the politicians, it would be inconceivable that the Western economies would have held so steadily...
While making his move from fourth to third place in the 1000-meter race, sophomore John Perkins threw his shoe. Despite the setback, Perkins finished the race and even managed to finish third...
...current MX plan also represents a potentially devastating setback to arms control. Reacting to Reagan's speech, the Soviets objected that Dense Pack would violate SALT prohibitions on building new launchers. They have a strong case. The American rebuttal that Dense Pack silos are shelters rather than launchers is pure casuistry. But that is not the biggest problem. Because hundreds of the new ICBMS would substantially increase the vulnerability of the Soviet Union's fixed-site ICBMS, the Kremlin might be induced to deploy a new generation of mobile ICBMS. Land-mobile missiles are a nightmare for both...
...Helms actually expects to lose a lot of the battles he fights. But the New Right's leading light may be in more serious trouble than he realizes, not in the Senate but where the votes really count, back home in North Carolina. Helms has recently suffered his worst setback in years, as all the candidates he suported in congressional elections were defeated--despite extensive financial and personal help. As a result, serious questions have been raised about Helms own domination nation of North Carolina, and his political future seems very cloudy indeed...