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...While Franco lives, most Spaniards see no likelihood of political change. But no one can be sure how long that will be. On "good days," he keeps up a reasonable schedule, but at other times he may be completely senile. When Vice President Gerald Ford arrived in Madrid last December, Franco was in such poor shape that it was difficult to arrange a protocol visit. Spanish television recently had to cancel a film that was to have shown the dictator fishing. It was a bad day, and Franco had to be propped up by two aides...
...outbursts did not divert Ervin. He asked one question after another about why investigators had not followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
...story of the nonswimming statistician who drowned in trying to wade a river with an average depth of three feet.) Sociologists are well known for expending a king's ransom on graph paper, conferences and field work to prove something that everybody knows, e.g., there is some likelihood you will marry the girl next door. Besides, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once said, "Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answers...
...support indicated by this survey, combined with the success the militants have in putting their point of view across within the coalition, will determine the likelihood of disruptive activities by the coalition today...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who indicated that Moscow would not oppose his peacemaking endeavors. The Israelis agreed to give up more captured territory on the Golan Heights, and the Syrians dropped rigid demands for a specific timetable for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. At week's end the likelihood of a disengagement deal was still uncertain, but Sadat worked on as though the final outcome was inevitable...