InDesign "Find Font" deletes text - help!

So I open a file, use 'find font' to find and replace a font. Sometimes when I hit "change all" it deletes entire paragraphs of text. I've tried it with different fonts and it's not consistent. Sometime it deletes, sometimes it doesn't.
Just now, I did a "change font" from Garamond to Univers and lost a paragraph on page one - no text in the box whatsoever. So I did and Undo. Then, I did the exact same "change font" again. Paragraph on first page is fine, one on page 2 goes missing. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Sorry it took me some time to get back...
#1 original file with the original fonts
#2 I have done a "Find Font" and replaced with Univers. Notice much of the text on page one is missing... it just seems to disappear (delete). In this case, some text in the same box was left, I think because it was a different font that the rest in the original font.
Sometimes it deletes everything in the text box, not just a portion.
Also, I originally suspected my Univers font to be the issue, however, that's not the case. This happens with several different fonts, inconsistently.

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