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...Peking, foreign residents worried about rising xenophobia; distrust of foreigners was also one of the aspects of the Cultural Revolution. They already have cause to be concerned. Last week a sullen crowd of Chinese hauled two French residents of Peking off to the local militia station after they aimed their cameras at women shoveling snow. The Frenchmen had been mistaken for "Soviet spies," police explained after releasing them...
After a year of Watergate revelations, after a year of attacks on the presidency unprecedented in their scope and ferocity, the American people are still undecided about what to do with Richard Nixon. The latest polls indicate a profound disenchantment with the man and a distrust of his motives: only 27% of the public approve of his current performance in office; 67% think that he knew about the Watergate coverup; 59% feel that 18½ minutes of a crucial tape were deliberately erased because they would have proved his involvement in the coverup. A year ago, the idea of impeaching...
...Their attitude is more one of distrust. If they smoke, they care enough about their parents to keep it from them. They know their parents are smart, and aren't gonna want to change their views. They don't travel this 'hip' and 'groovy' street...
Goodman cited polls showing that only 29% of the public has confidence in business today. The problem goes beyond a simple rejection of the Establishment or a distrust of growth that provides too much quantity and too little quality, he said. A more basic explanation is that business has "an almost unbroken record of opposing legislation that the public thinks is good. The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Acts, the Securities Exchange Act - we fought every one and lost...
Neuroscientists generally appreciate their concern. "It is a measure of the distrust with which science is now viewed that people automatically think first of the evil that scientific knowledge can bring," says M.I.T.'s Teuber. "It's as if we're suffering from some sort of Manhattan Project complex...