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Avoiding the Gas Chamber. Though the decision was a setback for foes of capital punishment all over the country, it did not start a parade to the gas chamber. In fact, the court ruled that Saterfield and Anderson should get another hearing on their sentences because persons who oppose the death penalty had been kept off their juries...
...government victory was a sharp setback for Montedison President Giorgio Valerio, 64, who as head of the Edison Group had engineered the 1966 merger. That alliance had been seen as a way of helping Italy's chemical industry to compete in world markets. But Valerio had trouble welding the staffs of the two companies, and the new combine was troubled by runaway costs. Profits declined by 7.4% last year to a reported $75 million...
Tear-Gas Attack. On the far right, the four-year-old National Democratic Party suffered its first setback at the polls when rightist candidates collected only 5.2% of the vote in local elections in the big West German state of Lower Saxony, which borders on East Germany. Until now, the National Democrats have been winning a higher percentage of the vote in each succeeding election, gaining 9.8% in last April's state elections in Baden-Württemberg...
...series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...
...setback for all progressive forces-for peace in the world and for humanity's dreams of future brotherhood...