Word: distrust
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...conduct successfully, and not only because in a democracy they cannot long be kept secret. That, to be sure, is a major problem, internally as well as externally. Partial stories leak; wild rumors fly; the Government is unable to explain fully what it is doing and why; public distrust grows...
...Greens with appeal to middle-class citizens seeking an alternative to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), West Germany's mainstream left-leaning party. Said Bastian of the internal feuding that encouraged him to resign: "In my entire life I have never experienced such an accumulation of distrust...
...racial stereotyping" and "negative tone." The total was boosted by a letter-writing campaign by Korean Americans unhappy over the story's suggestion that their national group is looked down upon by other Asian Americans. Said a typical letter: "The article fosters prejudice toward immigrants and divisiveness and distrust among the various ethnic minorities...
...squabbling among his advisers reinforced the President's deep distrust of economists. In a January radio address, he described economic forecasting as "far from a perfect science" and called economists "naysayers" and "doom criers." Though Rea gan was never a doctrinaire supply-sider who believed that deficits were nothing to get too concerned about, the President apparently refuses to believe that the budget gap will be as big and as harmful as Feldstein thinks...
That attitude should reassure the Kremlin, for it illustrates that a Soviet youngster can be enthralled with the trappings of Western culture but still retain his deeply nurtured distrust of the U.S. Indeed, the blue jeans and the disco thump probably serve as useful vents for youthful frustrations. The greater threat facing Chernenko is not that the Soviet Union's young people are attracted to other cultures, but that the system does not provide for their multiplying needs and locks them into slots at an early age, breeding apathy and boredom. -By James Kelly...