Word: setbacks
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...until the group now threatens to become a majority. That was made clear in a series of votes last week. Inching ever closer to a cease-and-desist order to the President, both the Senate and the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed antiwar measures. It was enough of a setback to cause Nixon to denounce his critics more vigorously than ever for encouraging the North Vietnamese to fight on. "We would hope," he said at his press conference, "that public figures in their comments will not do anything to undercut the negotiations, that Congress in its actions will...
...Middle Eastern affairs had not taken place at all. There was, of course, a good reason why the two big powers were maintaining a low profile: neither seemed to have a clear idea of what could, or should, happen next. The two superpowers seemed equally nonplussed by the diplomatic setback that a client state had handed one of them and by the potential political realignments that Sadat's desperate maneuvering had suddenly made possible...
...There was no problem between me and the U.S. The problem is U.S. support for Israel. I told Nixon that because we had suffered a military setback, we would not perish. We will never surrender. We are holding...
Though they have personal preferences like anybody else, political reporters cherish their neutrality in news stories as the cornerstone of their credibility. But credibility suffered a serious setback two weeks ago when Newspaper Guild President Charles A. Perlik Jr., 48, mounted a chair at George McGovern's press headquarters in Miami Beach to proclaim: "McGovern sounds the beat we can march to. Let's fall in line behind him." The executive board of the journalists' union had endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in the Guild's 39-year history. It was an extraordinary...
...resumption of fighting was a bitter setback for William Whitelaw. In London, M.P.S from both sides of the House of Commons last week expressed their confidence in the man who faces perhaps the toughest task in British politics since World War II. Whitelaw acknowledged the praise but declared sadly: "I deserve none of these things because I am not succeeding." Nonetheless, he emphasized that he would "continue to soldier through" to repair the truce. Accordingly, the British government sent in additional troops, bringing its strength in Ulster to 17,000, the highest ever...