Word: distruster
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...things have happened on his ((Reagan's)) watch -- and I am increasingly fearful about the future." Deeply troubled by the prospect of further arms agreements with the Soviets, he is still trying to bury the INF treaty by tacking killer amendments onto it, as he proved last week. His distrust of the Soviets is boundless and personal. He still suspects that Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983 in part because the Soviets had learned that he was scheduled to be aboard. "Trust them?" he asks. "No way, Jose...
...sincere desire to have a say in decision-making, the alumni movement has also drawn students to the governance red herring. Divestment activists who once built shanties now stuff envelopes urging alumni to vote for Peter Wood for Overseer. In the sixties, radical college students learned to distrust their elders. Now their alumni elders have become their role models...
...that the furor will divert attention and resources from the real heterosexual epidemic -- the one raging in the inner city among IV drug abusers, their sexual partners and children. The alarmist prophecies promoted in Crisis may discredit ongoing efforts to control the disease. "This plants the seeds of distrust in a group that the public should be able to look to for answers," argues Mervyn Silverman, former San Francisco public health director. Crying wolf, as Masters and Johnson have done, is no way to fight an epidemic...
...range nuclear-forces treaty, but spoke out sharply against U.S. "ultra-rightists" who sought to undermine the accord. He also lashed out at those Western "imperialists" who oppose the Soviet Union because "they fear a revival of the attractive force of socialist ideas." Such words reflected the deep-seated distrust that often seems to color the Soviet leader's view of the West...
Levy said that the problems in that country do not all stem from South African intervention. Levy said that he had observed popular distrust of the Mozambique government's plans for collectivization and suggested that the mutilations shown in "Killing a Dream" might just as well have been "inside jobs" as the work of RENAMO guerillas...