Word: likelihood
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There seems no likelihood that negotiation with the North can result in rapid or early demobilization of this force. The best planning assumption seems to be military stalemate and withering away of the war, a process that can last for a decade or more (unless an international body undertakes to keep the peace in Indo-China by maintaining a military presence there...
...There seems no likelihood that negotiation with the North can result in rapid or early demobilization of this force (of 1.2 million South Vietnamese soldiers)," Smithies writes. "The best planning assumption seems to be military stalemate and withering away of the war, a process that can last for a decade or more...
Thus Nixon had a sudden opportunity to impose his own philosophy on the court. His appointees, moreover, in all likelihood will continue to influence the nation's legal system-with potentially vast impact on society-long after Nixon leaves office...
...action by the Department of Justice." Mitchell said that he agreed with the President's Commission on Campus Unrest that the shooting was "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable." But he found no evidence of a conspiracy among National Guardsmen to shoot the students. Nor, he said, was there any "likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen. We can only hope that any type of recurrence can be avoided by this experience and that incidents like this will never again be a part of our national life...
Will Nicolae Ceauşescu's cultural purity save him from Russia's wrath? In all likelihood, the Russian-Rumanian crisis will prove to be nothing more than a Soviet campaign of intimidation. The situation is significantly different from Czechoslovakia in 1968; the Russians know that the Rumanians, like the Yugoslavs, would fight if they were attacked. Even so, the current war of nerves is an uncomfortable reminder to many East Europeans of that terrible August three years...