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...Appreciable variation" soon became the established party-line euphemism for what was actually a stunning political defeat: the loss of more than a million votes in Italy's national election last week. The setback was a dramatic reversal of the P.C.I.'s successive gains in the regional vote of 1975 and the general election of 1976, which had provoked anxiety in every Western capital about the specter of Eurocommunism coming to power in the NATO alliance. The defeat also raised the prospect of an intraparty challenge to Berlinguer's leadership, since it appeared to be a repudiation...
That, of course, was a considerable rush to judgment. But the already beleaguered nuclear power industry had clearly suffered a crippling setback. Not only are its plans for expansion now in grave doubt, but the Three Mile Island accident came at a time when President Carter was about to propose a new approach to the nation's energy problems. He had already urged a speedup in putting new nuclear power plants into operation by reducing the years it takes to pass through all of the regulatory challenges. While a case could still be made that bureaucratic indecision and delay ought...
...setback left the Crimson 0-1 in the Eastern League, a circuit in which a team cannot afford to lose more than three games if it has any kind of title aspirations...
...calling of a constitutional convention to require a balanced budget. A U.P.I, poll showed that 26 Governors were also opposed to thus amending the Constitution. Brown did not even dare introduce a resolution to endorse his new pet project. He did not want to risk the same kind of setback he had suffered the week before when his own California legislature rejected a call for such a convention...
...harshest setback came from Iran itself. No sooner had Hassan Nazih, the new head of the National Iranian Oil Co., announced that NIOC would resume exports, than he was telling cheering oil field workers that Iran would be raising prices by as much as 50%, to $18 to $20 a barrel. At the same time, said Nazih, the Country would cease dealing with the London-based oil consortium', headed by British Petroleum, that has exclusive long-term contracts to buy NIOC exports...