Word: setbacks
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...apparent loser was Yegor Ligachev, 67, the blunt second-ranking member of the Politburo. According to Western diplomats and Soviet sources in Moscow, the setback for the party's No. 2 figure came at a heated session of the Politburo last week to calm the increasingly public dispute over the limits of reform. Ligachev embodied the critical backlash against the new openness, which has brought freer discussion of abuses in Soviet society today and the brutal repression of the Stalin era. As the party's ideological watchdog, Ligachev strongly believed that this relaxation was becoming a dangerous weapon...
...kill was the first in a daylong series of naval clashes last week between the U.S. and Iran, the most serious military action taken since the American buildup began in the Persian Gulf last July. The action came during a week in which Iran also suffered a major military setback in its 7 1/2-year war of attrition with Iraq: Iranian troops were driven from the strategic Fao Peninsula by a concerted Iraqi offensive. Meanwhile a third drama involving the gulf, the 15-day hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner by suspected pro-Iranian Islamic extremists, ended anticlimactically in Algeria with...
...weighted in Chirac's favor, 24.5% to 16%. Moreover, while the survey results indicated that Chirac would lose to Mitterrand 48% to 52% in a two-way race, they also showed that Barre would fare worse, losing 46% to 54%. The Le Point findings represented a sharp setback for Barre, 64, who had based his candidacy on the contention that he was the center right's best bet to beat Mitterrand. Barre gamely sought to fire up his campaign in the final days, adding factory tours and cafe stops, but the momentum appeared to remain with Chirac. Said a Chirac...
...heart of the Walters case is the definition of sexual harassment. Lawyers for the former Harvard employee have counted on a broad definition of sexual harassment--to include harassment of women because they are women, even if the behavior is not of a sexual nature. In a setback for Walters, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity disagreed with such an interpretation, and ruled that at most Walters proved discrimination, not harassment. And in his rulings, he threw out the five claims he had to consider...
...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...