Word: setbacks
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...turned the government over to a civilian regime headed by a diffident, middle-roading law professor. The new Premier, Sorbonne-educated Dr. Mamoun ("Trusted One") Kuz-bari, 47, a former Minister of Justice, promised his countrymen constitutional government and "a true and democratic life." Jordan, swift to welcome any setback to Nasser, was the first country to recognize the new regime; it was followed by Turkey, which has also had strained relations with the U.A.R...
Even for John Kennedy, it was an arduous week of activity. It began with word of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's setback in West Germany. Then came the news of Dag Hammarskjold's death. The next day, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko began their cautious, first-round sparring about Berlin. Across the U.S., like malevolent mist, drifted the fallout from the Russian nuclear test shots, which by week's end had reached...
...conservative position on the pro- HUAC resolution had been heavily compromised in an effort to gain votes, and on other issues the Phillips contingent did not fare so well. Their most resounding setback was in the NSA executive committee's unanimous refusal to censure Vice President Timothy Jenkins for saying, "I think we now have unmasked in the final reality what exactly exists behind the facade of the conservative image, because we now see the base and debased colonial, repressive, slave- owning kind of mentality that can exist in a hard, fascist- type regime...
...patrol-boat incident was a setback for Miami's Harris in a one-man war he has been waging against Castro's Cuba. In the past five months. Harris has seized ten Cuban planes flown to the U.S. by defectors-five C46 cargo planes, three Piper Cubs, a DC-3B and a Cessna 180-as well as 3.5 million lbs. of lard purchased in the U.S. by Cuba and intercepted in Florida. He has sold these items for $200,000, is thus nearly halfway through his drive to recover $429,000 due him from the Cuban government because...
...gains and losses of the Cuban tractor deal were hotly debated in the U.S. (see THE NATION), but in Latin American eyes, the proposal represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro. Throughout the hemisphere, which Castro hopes to lure into sympathy with his Marxist revolution, the response to his ransom demand was one of disgust. Wrote Rio's moderately liberal O Globo, whose circulation is the biggest in Brazil: "Hitler wanted to trade Jews for trucks; Fidel Castro wants to trade Cubans for tractors. It may be that this shows progress or superiority of Communism over Naziism...