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Almost two years after the American withdrawal, the dead on both sides in Viet Nam were numbering more than 1,000 a week. The troubles in Northern Ireland seemed no closer to settlement (see THE WORLD). The year, however was dominated not by actual warfare but by ominous premonitions —anxiety over another Middle East war, an overriding fear of global depression. At least some of the changes in national leadership reflected a restive search for figures capable of guiding the world into a future that looked like a darker, more dangerous business than it had in some years.