Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Gorbachev's tactics last week somewhat flummoxed the Administration, the impact in Europe was muted. The center-left French daily Le Monde headlined its story A SETBACK FOR GORBACHEV: EUROPEANS REJECT THE MISSILE MORATORIUM. As usual, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was quick to line up with Reagan. Said she: "The place for negotiations was across the table in Geneva, not in the pages of newspapers." A few peace groups took heart from Gorbachev's message, but even some of them seemed disappointed. Said Pierre Galand, head of a Belgian organization opposed to nuclear weapons: "The moratorium...
...chains remained, and three days later, the Court dealt Columbia a decisive setback with a second ruling that favored the protesters. Somewhat ambiguously, the Court prohibited Columbia from using force to break up the demonstration unless the demonstrators become violent. The entire conflict is now pending a final resolution by the court. The thickening plot takes new twists-requiring new press reports-each day, and the suspense surrounding the barricade steadily mounts...
Dartmouth was the tournament' top seed, an honor the Big Green earned by knocking off Radcliffe in the fall. But the Black and White entered the event confident that they could avenge that setback...
...referendum on Duarte. They dinned home the idea that a vote for Duarte's party was a vote for the F.M.L.N. rebels, and ARENA's D'Aubuisson habitually called the Christian Democrats "the green stain," referring to the party's traditional election color. But ARENA suffered a noticeable setback in February when one of D'Aubuisson's associates was arrested in Texas with eight suitcases containing $6 million in cash: the Christian Democrats seized on the event with full-page ads in local newspapers...
...victory avenged Harvard's only setback of the 1984 EITA season, a loss at Columbia. The score of that nightmare was also...