The Nation - News from Jan. 11, 1987
Americans are more apprehensive about the prospects for another world war than are the residents of 32 other Free World nations, according to a Gallup poll. The survey asked participants to rate the chances of a world war’s breaking out in the next 10 years. Almost half of Americans (49%) believe the prospects for such a war are 50% or greater. Only the black South Africans surveyed shared that degree of pessimism. On the average, citizens of the 18 European nations in the survey are far less apprehensive than the peoples of Asia/Australia or North or South America about war prospects.
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