Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PEKING looms as a summit wreathed in mystery and uncertainty-and not only because no one can predict its outcome with any certainty. China is still emerging from the throes of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and muffled convulsions continue in the highest reaches of the regime. Who, in fact, rules China? So far as is known, there is no vertical hierarchy, no line of succession. There is Chairman Mao, 78, the Chinese revolution's ever more remote deity. Then there is Premier Chou Enlai, 73, the government's chief-and almost only -public presence...
...Ambassador to Moscow (1957-62 and 1967-69) covered some explosive moments in U.S.-Soviet relations, including the U-2 incident and the 1961 Berlin crisis, but through it all Thompson maintained excellent rapport with Soviet leaders. He was also valued for his ability to analyze Soviet intentions and predict how the Kremlin would react in specific cases; thus the White House sought his advice during the Cuban missile confrontation...
...will be mentally and physically ready tonight, but it is impossible to predict how Harvard will be feeling when it takes the ice before 15,000 fans at Boston Garden. The Crimson may be flat after dropping Saturday night's last-minute heartbreaker to Penn, or it may be ready to take B.U. apart to vent its frustration
...Laotian situation has already turned ominous; last week, as enemy forces cut the road between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, the royal capital, Premier Souvanna Phouma was reported to be wondering gloomily whether "we'll have to give up." But when would the predicted offensive begin in South Viet Nam, which remains Hanoi's main objective? There is some speculation that the Communist troops poised along the country's borders may not move for months, preferring to psych Saigon with what the military calls a "credible threat" rather than risk heavy casualties in an open fight. But most...
Buchwald forecast a great economic year for 1972: "Life won't be as bad as it was in the late '60s when things were booming, but I predict that it will be a good enough year that people will be able to feel how miserable a healthy economy...