Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH the awesome fury of a cyclone off the Bay of Bengal, civil war swept across East Pakistan last week. In city after crowded, dusty city the army turned its guns on mobs of rioting civilians. Casualties mounted into the thousands. Though the full toll remained uncertain because of censorship and disorganization in the world's most densely populated corner (1,400 people per sq. mi.), at week's end some estimates had 2,000 dead. Even if President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan is prepared to accept casualties of a geometrically greater magnitude, the outcome is likely...
...traumatic P.T.A. meeting ensued. Dr. Hofer, who once staged drug seminars at Dalton, was more or less accused of condoning pot for students. His defenders accused Barr of keeping black and Puerto Rican students out of the school. When Barr wandered in, his mawkish remarks about his uncertain future at the school drew catcalls ("Where'd you leave Checkers?"). One of his defenders received a Nazi salute. The combatants almost reeled back to their chauffeured limousines double-parked outside the school...
...labor leaders were murdered, as was Congressman Arnoldo Otten Prado, himself a labor leader and a member of the moderate wing of the ruling M.L.N. Uncertain whether he had been killed by rightists or leftists, his congressional colleagues quickly voted themselves life insurance policies...
PCPJ is still planning to engage in militant disruptions in Washington during the Spring, but the dates are still uncertain. Tentatively, PCPJ is calling for a week of agitation beginning May 1. "Sustained nonviolent civil disobedience and disruption" has been scheduled for May 3-4. Both PCPJ and NPAC have endorsed a nationwide Moratorium to be held May 5, with demonstrations scheduled for all major cities...
...consumer is hesitant, uncertain, off balance." So says Daniel Yankelovich, head of a Manhattan-based attitude-research firm that recently analyzed the reactions of 8,000 Americans to the economic climate. From the results, Yankelovich identified for TIME nine factors that contribute to the consumer's cautious mood. His report...