Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Vance was collecting promises of support in Europe, the Administration suffered a minor setback at home. In Washington, U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green directed the Administration to stop its crackdown on Iranians with student visas who are illegally in the U.S. She ruled that the Government had subjected the Iranians to a "discriminatory, 30-day roundup that violates the fundamental principles of American fairness." Since Nov. 13, immigration officials had interviewed 50,437 Iranians, found that 6,042 were in the U.S. illegally and expelled 56 of them. Government lawyers won a temporary stay of the ruling...
...month after the court decision, whites on the reservation received a more serious setback. Many of them got notices from the Bureau of Indian Affairs that the titles to the land on which they have lived for generations may be invalid: the land may actually belong to the Indians. The whites probably face no real threat of eviction because many Chippewas seem willing to accept a compromise under which they might be given an equivalent amount of Government-owned land. But whites say that their property values have been depressed by uncertainty...
...pass behind the right side of the Crimson defense. Mike Pilger pounced on the ball and put it over Crimson keeper Billy Blood into the far corner of the net. Poetic justice would have given Harvard the win, as it bounced back from a 3-0 Friday setback against Brown to play controlled, hustling soccer. The four fullbacks, in particular, recaptured their form and kept the Terrier attack at barking distance from goalie Blood for most of the game...
...issue in a lot of densely populated cities around the country that all start to look like Manhattan," City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who sponsored the question, says. He adds that possible regulations would invoke height and setback limitations to encourage appropriate development...
Princeton refused to be deflated by the early setback and pressured the Harvard backs for much of the remainder of the half. Only in the second 45 minutes, after Michael Smith moved back to center half from the right side to replace Frank RiCapito, did the Crimson gain control of midfield and look likely to preserve or increase its lead...