Word: uncertainity
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Jeffrey Kitingan and some of his supporters are currently in jail awaiting trial. But their future and the future of their country is uncertain, says the source. "No one knows what's going on over there," he says...
...Haitians stand poised to flee.) "While a positive development, it has to be seen as an in-house rescue program for a select few," says Arthur Helton, director of the refugee program run by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York City. It also remains uncertain how an embassy operating with only a skeleton crew -- most staff members have been withdrawn since the coup -- will process all of the claims...
Applause was directed not at his melanin but at his message. In no uncertain terms, Jeffries views met applause, approval and endorsement from most--if not all--of the "sun people" in the orchestra...
...sure, none of this is inevitable. It is conceivable that international pressure will cause some of the would-be nuclear powers to abandon their weapons programs, as Brazil, Argentina and South Africa appear to be doing. But that course is slow and uncertain: intelligence data on the suspects is inconclusive and open to sharp disagreement, not only about how far they are from developing usable weapons but even about how determinedly they are trying...
...precise genesis of the Mount Weather project remains uncertain, but it undoubtedly came in response to the Soviet Union's 1949 detonation of an atom bomb and the grave concern that event triggered in the U.S. Bellicose Soviet rhetoric, McCarthyite hectoring and, soon after, the Korean War persuaded senior U.S. officials in the early 1950s that provisions would have to be made to protect the country's leaders against a possible nuclear attack. Thus the search began for an impregnable site to which the President and other top officials could be spirited in case of a war emergency...