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...alternative, which some experts predict will happen in as few as five years, is reunification-a euphemism for Peking's takeover. Last week, not for the first time, there were widespread rumors that Chiang Ching-kuo actually visited the mainland recently for secret talks with the Communists. Officials in Taipei once again denied any possibility of a deal with the mainland, but when the elder Chiang departs, even reunification is not inconceivable...
Observers now predict that Carney and the third candidate in the race, conservative Republican Ralph Perk, who lost to Stokes in 1969 by 3,500 votes, will split the white vote. Thus, if Pinkney can win between 90% and 95% of the black voters-as Stokes predicts-he is a virtual shoo-in. In that case, the real winner will be Carl Stokes...
...highest incidence of black gang violence in the country, Rizzo's campaign strikes on one level a blatantly racist chord, although on another it appeals to legitimate fears of whites and some blacks as well. His overwhelming strength lies in the white community. Even Longstreth forces predict that up to 25% of the city's Republicans will cross party lines to vote for Rizzo. During the primary, Rizzo did not campaign in the black neighborhoods. He has since altered his strategy only to the point of an occasional stop in a black area...
Even without such aid from the enemy, Nixon's political-economic prospects are substantially improving. Many economists, including Democrats, predict that national production will jump by a historically high $100 billion or so next year and that the jobless rate will drop about a point, to 5%. Whether these forecasts come true will depend largely on Nixon's success in inspiring confidence within the nation?confidence that his wage-price restraints are fair and that they will work, so that consumers' dollars will no longer be ruthlessly chewed up by inflation...
Geysers may even predict major quakes that will occur thousands of miles away. In the early 1960s, for example, Old Faithful was spewing forth once every 67 minutes. But in 1963 its rate increased to once every 65½ minutes. Then in 1964 it abruptly slowed down again. To Rinehart, that variation in Old Faithful's timing seems intimately connected with Alaska's destructive Good Friday quake...