Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Safran emphasized the poor timing of the Administration's reprisal, referring to "indications that Cuba was beginning to make conciliatory, or at least half-conciliatory statements." He foresaw no dramatic change in policy by the Kennedy administration "but the possibility of a slow, gradual modification which would stop the situation from deteriorating further...
Henri Takizala, President of the National Union of Students of the Congo, made a plea that the East and the West "temper their conflict and allow the Congolese themselves to come together and solve their problems." If this is not done, Takizala foresaw the possibility of the Congo's becoming "another Korea," a divided country with Western influence centered in Leopoldville and Soviet influence dominating stanleyville...
...equilibrium" in society will result from this second transition, Boulding foresaw. He described the equilibrium as one that would be total, and not restricted to economic areas...
Boston's sprightly Richard Cardinal Gushing recalled that "months ago" he had predicted that Jack Kennedy would be the Democratic presidential nominee. After that, he made no more political auguries. But in Milwaukee last week he foresaw, fairly safely, Richard Nixon's nomination by the G.O.P. next week. His view of the contenders: "Both good campaigners and very capable." As His Eminence sees it, religion will not be a legitimate issue in the campaign. "The people are in a mood to hear the issues discussed rather than personalities and some other nonsense...
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was resisted every inch of the way by the Ashanti chiefs who clearly foresaw the loss of their power in a single nation run from Accra. In Nigeria, the ancient feud between the Yoruba of the west and the Ibo of the east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education...