Word: impendingness
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When Marxist rebels from Zaïre threatened last May to kill three kidnaped students in Tanzania-two of them Americans from Stanford University and the third Dutch-U.S. Ambassador W. Beverly Carter decided to bend a few of the State Department rules that forbid diplomats to get involved...
Meanwhile, the climate of uncertainty and impending violence in Portugal was echoed in a number of Portuguese possessions around the world:
Long before the plate-tectonics theory was conceived, scientists were aware that rocks fracture only under extreme stress. As early as 1910, Johns Hopkins Geologist Harry Reid suggested that it should be possible to tell when and where quakes were likely to occur by keeping close tab on the buildup...
In eight years of reporting on Arab-Israeli diplomacy and violence since the 1967 war, newsmen have become alert to the subtle nuances of Middle East peacemaking. While it was no secret that a new Sinai accord was in the air, TIME correspondents in Washington, Jerusalem and Cairo saw unofficial...
To ease the transition back to his official duties in Washington, he planned a two-day side trip to the Middle West this week to visit his heartland supporters. In Des Moines, he was to attend the Iowa State Fair (setting for the book and two movies called State Fair...