Word: distrust
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...conservative Senators, Democrats as well as Republicans, who sent a letter to the President urging him to go slow on SALT. "We ask that you instruct the Secretary of State that negotiations should continue without regard to ill-advised demands for an immediate agreement. Hurried diplomacy creates vulnerability and distrust, not arms control and understanding...
...mottoes is "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful...
...with Surinam's 63,000 Javanese, the Creoles took control of the preindependence assembly in 1973 elections. The state's 40,000 Bush Negroes−descendants of escaped slaves who live tribally in Surinam's jungles−have always preferred dealing directly with the Dutch, and distrust the Creoles. Another ethnic group consists of 10,000 largely apolitical indigenous Indians...
...Kurt Waldheim to express dismay. The U.N.'s Secretary-General deplored the danger that "we may lose the future through discord and confrontation." More predictably, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the resolution was "highly irresponsible" and had "added to the tensions, to the rifts and to the distrust" in the world. Congress was less restrained. Both houses denounced the action and promised an immediate reappraisal of U.S. involvement in the U.N. Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York charged that "the General Assembly has decided to institutionalize one of the world's most vile and ancient prejudices...
...workers's distrust of Chavez's union was proven well-justified. Suffering losses of both dignity and income, the workers were cheated and abused through the dictatorial and corrupt hiring hall and inept, incompetent, union policies. In many cases, workers and growers turned to the Teamsters for relief and by 1973 the UFW had lost most of its contracts. Chavez attempted to regain the lost contracts by trying to use the public again through boycotts which have yet to be called off despite the elections...