Word: distruster
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...police do not take the Red Berets very seriously, partly because they distrust vigilantes and have come to feel that active help from "civilians" is more trouble than it is worth. But Sliwa intends to continue the patrols. "It didn't take the muggers long to change their schedule," he notes. Six major subway thefts with violence have lately been committed after special police patrols knocked off work at 2 a.m. Fortnight ago, as Sliwa and two other Red Berets drove off six men trying to rape a woman on a Brooklyn elevated platform, Sliwa disarmed a man with...
...quay because it will rob the loading area of space. Owen promises to look into it, knowing full well that he is not gaining much ground with the men, most of whom normally vote Conservative. Still, he professes confidence. "As the campaign goes on," he insists, "more people will distrust the Tory line. We are closing...
...sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer members of a faction, but unchanged in their assessment of the legacy of 1969. Lost scholarship, student-faculty distrust, enmities within the Faculty--the conservatives regard these as the long-term ill effects. The long-term lesson, as May puts it, is the realization that "nearly all issues can be discussed in a rational...
...committee's report also emphasized the restructuring of Faculty governance. Pusey's decision to call the police to clear University Hall, and his complete lack of consultation with the Faculty (aside from a small group of deans) infuriated most Faculty members and engendered a widespread distrust of many of the administrators involved in the decision to make the bust. In addition, the lack of communication between the Faculty and the Corporation, Dean Ford's own disagreement with the Faculty vote on ROTC and his admitted frustration at trying to speak for the entire Faculty, the hasty drafting of legislation...
...Pike Committee of the House investigated the intelligence services--led to a spate of revelations about the CIA's activities. The agency had conducted drug experiments on innocent individuals, opened mail at home and been involved in nefarious covert operations abroad. It was the climax of the popular distrust for the CIA beginning with the Bay of Pigs. In retrospect the fears leading to the Congressional investigations--Seymour Hersh's allegations in The New York Times--were as exaggerated as some contemporary demands including the total abolition of the CIA. Significantly, the Church Committee concluded the agency was a necessary...