Word: uncertainity
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Guggenheimer said several guides had told him they were uncertain about the relationship, suggesting the need to spread the information...
...Obote proclaimed that he would return to Uganda to run for re-election as soon as the date of the vote was announced. Said Obote: "The only issue in the election is whether you are pro-or anti-Tanzanian." Obote's threat merely adds to Uganda's uncertain future. Most Western diplomats believe that instability will last until the country has an elected government with a strong mandate. Binaisa said last week that national elections, originally scheduled for June 1981, might be held by November of this year. Until then, Uganda is likely to stumble from crisis...
...arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect $20,000 for local gunsmiths to build portable armor-piercing guns; the rebels do not have conventional antitank weapons. With only homemade weaponry and local generosity to rely upon, it was uncertain how long the insurgency could hold out against Moscow's 80,000 well-armed troops...
...message: 65 and out. While mandatory retirement has recently been relaxed, with the age advanced to 70, popular thinking still falsely tends to take age as a sure index of vitality. The stereotype of an old person as a doddering, drooling, irrelevant nuisance is much circulated. Beyond some uncertain year, people are often regarded as having little or no need for earthly pleasures, particularly sexual ones. Says Myrna Lewis, co-author of Sex After Sixty: "Children carry a double standard that older people should be monogamous or celibate just because they...
...upset not because, as one Radcliffe freshman said, "it scares me to death" but because the medical community is creating a flase impression of the DES problem. DES is a serious issue, several women have died of cancer. But more damaging is the scare techniques used by uncertain and uninformed physicians. When the DES issue first broke at the beginning of the decade, several women, on the advice of their doctors, had preventive hysterectomies. As is known now, only a tiny fraction of DES daughters will develop cancer. The surgery was unnecessary...