Word: uncertainity
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...Whether the committee would now be allowed to observe the Chinese weaponry is uncertain with the present situation," she added...
...What is uncertain, however, is just how much Iran's rulers, whoever they may ultimately turn out to be, want to work with the U.S. Equally uncertain is how the downfall of the Shah's regime will affect the balance of power in the Middle East, and in the world. All that is clear is that the collapse of Iran has raised serious new doubts about U.S. foreign policy. In ways not yet fully clear, the sight of Iran reduced to anarchy has brought into question Washington's ability and determination to support its allies...
...convince Congress, the nation and world leaders that he has taken firm control, he is going to have to begin outlining a geopolitical world view that features America as an active, assertive and purposeful leader, rather than the baffled, dismayed, uncertain spectator it has too often seemed in the recent past...
China is avid to buy foreign technology, but how much it will be able to pay for is inscrutable. The still poor country has little to sell abroad, and it is most uncertain what sums it can borrow, from whom and on what terms. Finally, veteran China traders suspect that in many cases what now appear to be three sales will turn out to be only one, for which the Chinese have invited three companies, unknown to each other, to negotiate and submit what amount to competing bids-a strategy not unknown in the West...
They were not alone. Alarmed by what the State Department called the "uncertain security situation," and fearing a tide of anti-American sentiment, Ambassador William Sullivan asked Americans whose presence was not essential to leave. Despite many Iranians' personal reassurances to foreigners of their friendship, there were two ugly incidents: Major Larry Davis was hit by two bullets as he returned home, and was rushed to the U.S. Army hospital; U.S. Consul David McGaffey was punched and beaten by an irate group of Iranians when he tried to intervene in an incident between an American and a taxi driver...