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...intended docking target for a second manned Soyuz. The two ships, in effect, would have formed a mini-space station in earth orbit. But a failure apparently occurred aboard Cosmos, and the scheduled manned launch had to be scrubbed. Thus the Russians appear to have suffered a second major setback in space only weeks after their Salyut space station was crippled in orbit...
...stunning setback for Ian Smith's authoritarian regime, the appellate division of Rhodesia's high court last week overturned the conviction of Journalist Peter Niesewand for violation of the Official Secrets Act. Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, in announcing the unanimous ruling, twitted the Smith government's case against Niesewand: "Factual evidence as opposed to opinion was never given." The court found that Niesewand's reports on guerrilla activity against Rhodesian forces near the Mozambique frontier last year had not damaged the state, but had merely embarrassed the government...
After yesterday's Radcliffe win, the Sprints boils down to a rematch of the tight Princeton-Radcliffe contest. Three weeks ago in Princeton, N.J. the women from Old Nassau hung a heartbreaking one-second setback on the 'Cliffe eight...
Still smarting from its first setback of the season, the Radcliffe crew returns to the friendly waters of the Charles River basin today, hoping to bounce back in to the win column in a seven-team regatta this morning...
Radcliffe had been waiting for this one ever since last season when Princeton handed the 'Cliffe a disappointing setback at the Intercollegiate Sprints, and added fuel to the already intense Radcliffe Princeton with its haughty attitude after the victory...