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...object is to give Maddox a second term as Governor, a post he held from 1967 to 1971. Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah." Last week that effort suffered a setback that may be fatal; Maddox failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff in the Democratic primary...
Turkey's decision to legalize poppy crops represents the worst setback yet in what has been an effective Nixon Administration crusade against the worldwide drug trade. Before Turkey originally agreed to halt its planting in return for a threeyear, $35 million aid program from the U.S., its annual crops followed a trail that led through the processing labs of Marseille ("the French connection") to the U.S. Turkish-grown heroin accounted for fully 80% of the total U.S. supply...
Shockley bounced back fast from his initial setback at Harvard. In December, the Whig-Cliosophic Society, a Princeton University debating club, set up a Shockley-Innis debate...
...varsity four of coxswain Amy Sacks, stroke Barbara Norris, three Anne Robinson, two Robin Lothrop, and bow Sarah Kuhn suffered a serious setback when Kuhn sprained her back in practice. As a result, the four has had only light workouts the past few days, but Radcliffe coach John Baker expects Kuhn to be ready for the weekend races...
...Fanfani, who was emerging as Italy's most powerful politician, the failure of the referendum was a bruising personal setback. "Until now Fanfani has run the Christian Democrats like a despot," said a Socialist official. "He won't be able to do that any more." The Communists, generally delighted by the outcome of the referendum, may find that the Christian Democrats' weakness will dim prospects for the "historic compromise" between left and right that Enrico Berlinguer has proposed between Italy's two largest parties...