Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that if he's elected, tensions will increase." "They are concerned," adds Yale Political Scientist Frederick Barghoorn, "about creating pressure against anyone who is for a hard-line American policy. If they could swing a couple hundred thousand votes against Nixon, they would do it." Other Kremlinologists doubt, however, that the Russians would base their policy on so uncertain a premise...
...last gubernatorial vote. On the ballot, alternate candidates are offered in case the official is turned out. In California, such efforts have always failed before. Since the tactic was first applied statewide in 1911,* petitions have been circulated against three Governors, but never were enough signatures collected. Political experts doubt that this drive against Reagan will have much better luck. Even so, the Governor has conceded that the effort alone could be "embarrassing...
...from respectable liberals, their leaders had advertised Dubček's "renewal," as Italian Party Boss Luigi Longo called it, to be the party's exciting new image. Now Moscow has damaged and perhaps destroyed that image. The resulting bitterness in the Communist camp has raised serious doubt that the Kremlin will really be able to hold the summit meeting scheduled for November, at which it desperately wants to consolidate support against the Chinese...
...Pompidou, had actually settled on him as his successor in the presidency. Most people felt, however, that it was simply a case of an old man canning a younger potential rival who, in the words of one of Pompidou's aides, "had gotten too big too soon." Any doubt that Pompidou was sacked was more or less dispelled when Couve re appointed practically every Minister in the old Cabinet-an indication that De Gaulle wanted only a change of Premier...
...been a patriot using the revolution as a handy tool? Obviously he has been both. Lacouture examines both sides of the case and settles for calling him an "ingenious empiricist," a "highly unusual practitioner of Marxism," a master strategist of the "favorable moment." But there is not much doubt that the autonomy of Viet Nam has been the one uncompromising goal of Ho's long, tenacious career...