Word: prediet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weakness in the Air. Though China's air force ranks third in size in the world (behind the U.S. and Russia), its 2,900 planes are mostly obsolete MIG-15s and 17s. Western experts prediet that China will soon start turning out a few advanced MIG-19 and 21 jets on its own, but production will be slow and light. In any air clash with U.S. Navy and Air Force jets over Southeast Asia, Mao's planes would certainly be swept from the skies in a matter of days. Even the Chinese Nationalists, flying slow F-86 Sabre...
...some important decisions will have to be made by Johnson because events necessitate them--for example, in South Viet Nam and in relations with the Soviet Union. Unclear, perhaps contradictory, Kennedy policies in other areas--notably the Alliance for Progress--will demand further decisions. "It is absolutely impossible to prediet," said Hoffmann, "what will happen in these decisions...
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