Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Rumanians associate communism with tyranny and deprivation, and are not likely to trust even its reformers for long. Like Gorbachev, some of the postrevolution leaders hope to rebuild the Communist Party, not abolish it. Others are uncertain. Newly appointed Prime Minister Petre Roman, for example, admitted last week that the party might not have a future. "I don't know if it will survive," he said. Vice President Mazilu went further. "Rumania is no longer a communist country," he said. "Rumania is a free land, and we will create a real democracy...
Members of the Administration have had trouble thinking about the long-term future because the short term is so uncertain. No sooner did they decide on affirmative answers to their initial questions about Gorbachev -- Is he for real? Is he good for us? -- than they started worrying, Will he last? Will he succeed? What happens, and who takes his place, if he doesn...
...Noriega's army and seized control of strategic facilities along the Panama Canal. Though the crafty dictator was still on the loose, Powell said that it was only a matter of time before U.S. soldiers tracked him down. The only bad news in Powell's rosy report was the uncertain fate of a dozen American hostages, seized by fleeing Panamanian irregulars as they cut and ran from approaching American troops...
...bases. The force was so strong that Pentagon planners had briefly considered dispatching a column of U.S. troops to nab Noriega during an ill- ! fated uprising by P.D.F. officers last October. That daring plan was quickly -- and, as it turned out, wisely -- discarded as too risky and uncertain...