Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barring complications he might return to the White House this week and be able to resume all physical activities, including riding, within three months. One complication surfaced at week's end: Reagan ran a fever of 102°. Said Aaron: "It's a little bit of a setback...
...late this week Dr. Dennis S. O'Leary, the hospital spokesman, told reporters that Reagan had lost about two units of blood and was complaining of "air hunger" when he reached the hospital. And yesterday Reagan's chest surgeon conceded that the president's temperature is a "limited setback" that might lead to pneumonia...
...cutoff of the arms flow. It also gave all-out support to the shaky military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador, sending not only American weapons but military training personnel. If that help enables the junta to prevail, the U.S. would indeed have broken a string of American setbacks and Communist successes. But if the junta should fall, either to the leftist guerrillas or -equally bad-to a coup by rightists misusing American aid, Washington would suffer an unnecessary setback round the world. The European allies and several friendly Latin American regimes, which agree with the goal of stopping...
Klaussen had a setback two weeks ago when he fell in both races at the Eastern Championships at Middlebury. He was foiled by what should have been a Western skier's delight; more than a foot of soft, new snow that was soon gouged into thigh-deep ruts by the racers...
...clubfooted interventions in Angola and Ethiopia, and its support for Viet Nam's subjugation of Laos and Cambodia, the U.S. has new openings in the so-called Nonaligned Movement. Afghanistan was a founding member of the movement 26 years ago; the Soviet invasion there was a devastating setback to Fidel Castro's attempt to achieve permanent leadership for Cuba in the movement and to establish a kind of godfather status for the U.S.S.R. as the natural ally of nonalignment. States as diverse as Burma, Mozambique and Guyana have begun to distance themselves from the U.S.S.R...