Word: predicters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carmichael, the Institute fellow who narrowly lost the governor's race in Mississippi last year, said that he was in Tennessee this week and that Reagan supporters there predict their candidate may be out of the race within a week...
Since there exists no formalized mechanism for a transfer of power in the U.S.S.R., a crisis inevitably occurs when a leader dies or is ousted. Many Kremlinologists believe that Brezhnev would prefer an orderly transition and a new regime that will continue his policies. Nonetheless, they predict a possibly lengthy power struggle under cover of a caretaker "collective leadership." If Brezhnev were to retire in the near future, his titular successor would probably be Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, 69, an old Brezhnev crony, who has acted for Brezhnev during his recent illnesses. Kiril Mazurov, 61, at present Kosygin...
...troubles are in agriculture. Drought contributed to a disastrous harvest in 1975; because of an 83-million-ton grain shortage, the Soviets were obliged to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign countries. The winter-wheat crop this year has already proved disappointing. Some Washington experts predict that shortages of bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities for food distribution...
Fallen Down. The charges include now familiar allegations that the CIA has repeatedly fallen down on the job, that the agency should have been able to predict the 1968 Communist Tet offensive in South Viet Nam, the 1973 Middle East war and 1974 coups in Portugal and Cyprus. Further, the report contends that the CIA'S covert operations are "irregularly approved, sloppily implemented and at times have been forced, on a reluctant CIA by the President and his National Security Adviser," who until November was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...beginning of the indoor track season, coach Bill McCurdy did not predict any great achievements for his squad. Even after a 94-18 romp over B.U. in the season opener, McCurdy was still cautious...