Word: uncertainity
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Today, Oberg believes conciliation is possible and necessary between the United States and Vietnam. On a recent visit to Hanoi, he was told by the Prime Minister "in no uncertain terms that the Vietnamese would welcome normalization. Public opinion is ready to forget the past and look toward the future." And yet, the diplomat understands the complexity of this proposition for Americans. He notes a tradition in U.S. foreign policy to "let bygones be bygones." But as he puts it: "In the case of Vietnam, this is a hard tradition to live up to. After all, the United States...
Haig has been out front on the El Salvador issue from the first days of the Administration. He overcame objections by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that it did not make military sense to stake so large a claim on such an uncertain battlefield and by top White House advisers who were reluctant to detract national attention from the President's economic program. Convinced that this battle would be cleanly and quickly won, the Secretary of State designated El Salvador as the location for a U.S. showdown-not just with a band of 6,000 leftist guerrillas, who were then...
...measure's sponsors are now pushing for formal hearings, and while chances for passage in the House look good, the outcome in the Senate is uncertain. Though the resolution is purely symbolic, its passage would surely embarrass, if not hamper, the Administration in any arms-control negotiations. Meanwhile, as Administration hawks scramble to defuse the measure, a grassroots campaign against doomsday weapons picked up more support last week. Maine's legislature became the eighth to request a moratorium on the spread of nuclear arms...
...dwindling profits. "I haven't seen times like this before," confesses William McCarthy, buyer for the 20-shop chain of Kroch's & Brentano's bookstores in the Chicago area. "The book business is being hit by everything at once: a soft economy, cost increases and an uncertain audience...
...audience is uncertain, publishers are downright frantic. Only yesterday they could count on six-and seven-figure sales to paperback houses and thereby raise needed operating capital, fund new ventures and enrich writers' wallets. But Fat City is rapidly becoming as legendary as the Land of Oz. According to New York Publishing Consultant Leonard Shatzkin, author of the forthcoming analysis of U.S. publishing, In Cold Type, the times get leaner by the month: 1977 paperback-reprint rights, for example, "contributed approximately 60% of total subsidiary-rights income to publishers. That went down...