Word: setbacks
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...Arturo Frondizi said that "there can be no social development without economic development." All these were promising signs for Latin America's long-term good, but if the U.S. expected any immediate dividends from its diplomatic attempts to retrieve the Cuban disaster, it got a sharp setback. For weeks Washington has been working feverishly to line up hemisphere support for an emergency meeting of the OAS Foreign Ministers to deal with Castro. But last week Ecuador's Foreign Minister Jose Chiriboga, a strong proponent of collective OAS punitive action, was forced to resign under pressure from President Jose...
...Republican leaders consulted by Kennedy responded handsomely, promising him their fullest cooperation. But some others seemed less willing to remain silent in the face of setback. Snapped G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton: "The time has come for our Government to sing bass in world affairs and not take refuge in shrill Byzantine ambiguities...
...motion expressing "strong disapproval" amounted to only a minor setback for Phillips, who two weeks ago won the chairmanship of the Massachusetts Young Republicans...
...Egyptian setback forced Athens to abandon her Peloponnesian campaign and concentrate all her resources on reversing the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, to halt the disintegration of her hegemony in the Aegean...
...Council researchers to take the word of Dr. Dana Farnsworth or Dustin Burke or Thomas Bolles or the Deans. Phillips feels that Council members often do not pry enough. When Council reports are condemned as "rubber stamps," the purpose of the investigation is forgotten and the Council suffers another setback...