Word: setbacks
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...were about to start the second phase: the establishment of peace in the area that would include all the parties concerned. In my visit to Carter last April, I told him that if we are not going to make good preparations for Geneva, there will be a setback. I proposed a working group under [Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance to contact all the parties concerned so that we could start at Geneva discussing the substance, not the procedural arrangements. But it was rejected by the Syrians. This is their habit. Whatever Egypt proposes, they reject at once, even without discussing...
Shelledy earned a jail sentence. In what is being called a stunning setback for press freedom, the Supreme Court last week declined to review his contempt citation for refusing to identify the "police expert" in a pretrial deposition for a libel suit filed against him and the paper by Caldero...
Last Saturday's disheartening setback in Providence gave Harvard an excuse to pack it in, but things haven't worked out that way. "Sure it was tough to lose that key one," Crimson mentor Joe Restic said yesterday. "But we are still in the picture. We had an excellent week of practice. Sharing the title, and having a winning season are motivation enough...
Last week, however, terrorism suffered a dramatic setback. The West German government refused to bow to the demands of a pistol-armed band of two men and two women who had skyjacked a Lufthansa jet and embarked on a 110-hour odyssey of terror from Majorca to Mogadishu, Somalia. There, in a daring middle-of-the-night raid, West German commandos rescued 82 passengers and four crew members, killed three of the skyjackers and wounded the fourth (see following story...
...final Saturday of the season. Harvard will win two of its three Ivy contests before the Yale game, most likely losing in an upset to deceptively strong Penn. Brown, enraged after its loss to Harvard in Providence, will whittle the pathetic Woodsmen of Dart-mouth down to their second setback. And Yale, yes those Elis, will win it's next three games very comfortably...