Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staging area in the Pacific. Worse still, Philippine officials threatened that they would arrest South Vietnamese military and government officials who were expected to arrive there at week's end aboard U.S. naval vessels: whether the Filipinos would choose to enter a U.S. base to do so remained uncertain. At the same time, U.S. authorities were coping with disgruntled American evacuees who did not fancy their lodgings and were impatient to be on their way. At Guam, a band of Americans staged an hour long sit-in on a bus until they were given better quarters...
Satisfied by the report, the committee members cleared the bill for Senate action this week, and it seemed likely that something along the lines of the proposed contingency fund would eventually clear Congress, though when remained uncertain. In the Administration's view, if no military aid was to be voted, American interests would be better served by a delay of that verdict that would keep alive a spirit of anticipation in Saigon and, as one presidential adviser said, "avoid spooking the South Vietnamese." The long agony of America's involvement in Viet Nam seemed to be ending...
What role awaits Sihanouk is highly uncertain. In a series of statements last week, the mercurial prince insisted that he is neither a Khmer Rouge nor a Communist but a neutralist. "I am a very independent man," he said. He may have some voice in the new regime, perhaps as its representative abroad, though he has indicated that what he would really like is to be named lifetime head of state. Whatever the role, he said, he would advocate a Cambodia that would be nonaligned, progressive and nonCommunist. That would surely bring him into conflict with Khieu Samphan, who would...
...player was nursing a sprained ankle, but the injury did not stop him from uninhibitedly demonstrating a self-choreographed twist-and-shake step he calls "Soul Train." Nor did the sedate surroundings squelch his urge to sing a few bars from the rock song Philadelphia Freedom in an uncertain tenor or to entertain the club's teenagers with raunchy jokes. James Scott Connors, 22 going on 19, was taking his own kind of time-out from training for this Saturday's televised million-dollar match with the world's No. 2 player, Australian John Newcombe...
...Schedule Uncertain...