Word: setbacks
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran, faced yet another setback in his ill-starred 14-month exile...
After cruising through the first day's competition without a loss, 134-pounder Rick Kief suffered his first setback on a 17-10 loss to Brian Billing of Wilkes Saturday morning in the quarterfinals. Billing went on to finish second and qualify for the NCAAs...
...also says that the Illinois campaign suffered the greatest financial setback when funds began to dry up after Kennedy's 2-1 defeat in Iowa last month. But despite Kennedy's woes in the Land of Lincoln, Carter's strategist does not predict overwhelming victory. "We're ahead at this point," Franks acknowledges, "but the election is almost a month away...
American efforts to coordinate an allied response to the Soviet intervention also received a setback late last week when France abruptly announced that it would not send a representative to a Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bonn next week. The talks had been initiated by the U.S. The French refusal to participate considerably undercut the impact of an unusually strong joint statement issued earlier in the week by French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; it called the Soviet intervention "unacceptable" and demanded a withdrawal...
Eager to erase the bitter memories of last week's upset loss, Harvard's aquamen seized the opportunity to play giant killer themselves yesterday, winning ten of the eleven swimming events to hand perennial national power Indiana University a 67-46 setback before 1200 highly partisan fans at Blodgett Pool...