Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stark contrast to the Dole camp after New Hampshire, the Bush team had refused to crumble into chaos following the Iowa setback. After a few days of dejection, the Vice President's men mapped out a new strategy and brought in ace Speechwriter Peggy Noonan, a Reagan favorite, to add a human touch to Bush's bland rhetoric. Bush adopted a man-of-the-people campaign style, touring a shopping mall and a lumberyard, dining at a truck stop and a McDonald...
...considered the most viable of the four "independent" black homelands | set up by South Africa. Bop, as the homeland is sensibly known, derives substantial revenues from platinum mining and the gambling resort of Sun City. But Bop -- and Pretoria's oft-denounced homeland policy in general -- suffered an embarrassing setback last week, when a coup briefly toppled the government...
...contra spokeswoman in Miami termed the vote "a serious setback in our struggle for freedom and democracy...
...skeptical White House dismisses Sandinista concessions as cosmetic and insincere. "Each step they have taken, each reluctant reform, is still easily undone," Reagan insisted. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut challenged that view. "Every time the Sandinistas make a concession, the White House sees it as a major setback," he charged last week. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater delivered a sharp rebuttal. "The Democrats, Chris Dodd and others, they want a surrender, and they think surrender is the best way to achieve peace. We disagree...
...moved swiftly to claim the middle ground, telling Soviet editors, "We are frequently criticized by some from the right and some from the left." Referring indirectly to last year's ouster of Boris Yeltsin as head of the Moscow Communist Party organization, he denied that the move was a setback for reform. He indicated that Yeltsin, once a close ally, had pushed too hard for sweeping changes. As for criticism from the right, Gorbachev insisted that his initiatives were actually strengthening socialism rather than creating a Western-style "private-owner mentality" -- something that could not develop, he argued, as long...