Word: setbacks
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...setback and it may have been a blessing," Taylor says. "We now know what it's like to lose. I think it will inspire us for the rest of the season...
...action was the latest setback for Khashoggi, a key middleman in U.S. arms sales to Iran. French police confiscated his DC-9 aircraft earlier this month. The arms dealer's growing financial woes, which stem in part from the failure of grandiose real estate and development schemes, seem certain to cause further cutbacks in a sybaritic life-style that once earned Khashoggi a reputation as the world's richest...
...long-threatened offensive, which is expected to begin sometime before March. Rather it seemed to have been an Iranian effort to test Iraqi defenses along the southern front. Nonetheless, the recent Iraqi aerial bombardment may be causing morale problems within Iran. The Khomeini government cannot afford a serious setback on the battlefield, but neither can it afford a widespread civilian reaction against the stalemated...
...A.N.C.'s policy of nonviolence received a sudden and brutal setback in 1960 when police killed 69 unarmed blacks attending a political protest in Sharpeville, a black township 35 miles from Johannesburg. Shortly thereafter, leadership of the organization passed to two of the organization's young comers, Mandela and Tambo, who were law partners and longtime congress members. The A.N.C. was banned by the Pretoria government and began carrying out armed attacks from underground. Mandela and most other A.N.C. leaders were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Tambo escaped because he had been sent abroad to open...
...suspension of peace talks was quickly followed by another setback. Last Monday, by a vote of 51 to 43, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposal for $200 million in emergency aid to the Philippines. The naysayers, primarily Republicans, cited budgetary constraints and concerns about the future of two American military bases in the Philippines whose leases expire in 1991. The House of Representatives had approved a $200 million aid package just five hours after Aquino electrified Congress with a stirring address. But Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole argued, "There were no hearings in the House. It was just a knee...