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...chances of that now seem slim. At best, the foreign ministers may only be able to agree on how and in what forum the members of the EEC will receive President Richard Nixon if he visits Europe this autumn, as expected. If the bickering continues, some Germans gloomily predict, by 1980 Europe will be little more than a glorified PX filled with Common Market goods...
...generals have already established secret contacts with insurgent officers. With the exception of a few Americans, diplomats in the capital are betting that the Lon Nol regime cannot survive until the end of the year. When the insurgents get ready to attack, Phnom-Penh will fall, they predict...
Frazier also takes issue with his colleagues who try to draw a psychiatric profile of a murderer. "From what we know now," he says, "we cannot predict either who is going to commit murder or which people will commit single murders and which will do multiple murders...
Waiting Game. No one is ready to predict what the insurgents-inside and outside Phnom-Penh-will do next. The initiative is all theirs, military observers agree, and they have a range of options: they could launch a frontal attack on the capital, or cause a slow strangulation by cutting off its supplies, or even stage a Tet-like uprising from within. Although Lon Nol has 75,000 troops in and around Phnom-Penh (with insurgent forces estimated at 20,000), fewer than 12,000 are regarded as battle effective. Thousands of others perform headquarters tasks or serve as bodyguards...
...seven Democratic and two Republican candidates have been campaigning hard during the past month. But voter interest in the election has been low, and experts predict a turnout of under 20 per cent...