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...decision, which became official a week later with a vote of the 47-member Council of State, underscored the differences and distrust that separate the government from the opposition political parties. Many of the Sandinista leaders, who enjoy the support of a majority of the Nicaraguan people, are openly scornful of the kind of rigged balloting that characterized the Somoza era. More important, the leadership remembers how the three main Sandinista factions did not join forces until the later days of the anti-Somoza struggle and is fearful that elections could destroy their new-found unity. On the other hand...
...worst terrorist attack in Western Europe since World War II, which authorities attribute to neo-Fascist extremists, demonstrably deepened public distrust of Italian officialdom. Outside the cathedral, a crowd of 200,000 jammed the Piazza Maggiore and made their feelings known. Popular President Alessandro Pertini received only token applause, while Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga and other political leaders were greeted with whistles and boos. Only seven of the victims' coffins were lined up before the main altar for the public Mass; most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against...
...Western nations have shown such distrust of the stock market as France. For decades, the average Frenchman has preferred stashing away gold coins to investing in the country's industry. For the past two years, however, the French Bourse has been on a rampage, thanks to a campaign by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to "make the French owners of France...
Most of Ulster's Protestants reject unification. Their longstanding distrust of the Catholic South has been intensified by continuing hit-and-run raids across the long, largely open border by Provisional Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) terrorists based in the Republic. In the border area of Newtownbutler alone, 51 Protestants have been shot by terrorists in the past few years. "It's as bad as Viet Nam here now," said a South Tyrone auto mechanic who had seen two co-workers gunned down by Prove hit men a week earlier. At an angry protest meeting in Newtownbutler last month...
...embattled vulnerability?insecurity in the face of Asiatic hordes to the east, inferiority in the face of more sophisticated, more cohesive European civilizations to the west. Other legacies are a faith in strong armed forces and weak neighbors, and a reliance on institutionalized distrust in the form of an all-powerful secret police...