Word: setbacks
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...Minister to France in the 17905, Monroe suffered his first and greatest setback: his pro-French views tangled with the Administration's policy of neutrality between France and Britain, and President Washington angrily ordered him recalled...
Atlanta is still recovering from the June jetliner crash in France that killed 105 of its citizens, including many of the city's cultural leaders. The city recently suffered a setback of another kind when voters turned down an $80 million bond issue to finance a wide variety of home county improvements, including an elaborate cultural center. Last week the leaders were blaming the defeat only on themselves. Said Editor Patterson: "It was overconfidence. We had succeeded for so long I thought we couldn't fail. Therefore we didn't spell it out to the voters...
...week's end, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, was about the only member of his team who seemed unruffled by the setback. "This is what negotiations are for," he shrugged. "We have been expecting difficulties to arise, and they have." But in a final 22-hour session aimed at breaking the stalemate, Heath's team failed to win the clear-cut safeguards it sought. With no hope of obtaining an overall accord in time for the Commonwealth conference in London next month, Britain and the Six adjourned the talks, agreed to try again...
...Americans who have parents, who are liable to be ill. and who have children to educate at the same time." Speaking over reporters' heads to the nation, he said that "nearly all the Republicans and a handful of Democrats joined with them to give us today's setback. I hope that we will return in November a Congress that will support a program like medical care for the aged...
...consequences of a coup, the U.S. suspended relations, stopped $81 million in Alliance aid, cut off military aid now running at $5,000,000 a year, and threatened as well to take away Peru's premium-priced U.S. sugar quota, amounting to $19 million a year. "A serious setback" to democracy, said President Kennedy, in an unusually vigorous White House statement. The generals were reported planning to send a mission to Washington to explain everything. Said Perez Godoy: "I know that President Kennedy can understand. What he wants in the Alliance is what we want...