Word: distruster
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...industry's basic problem: U.S. labor. At sea, on the docks and in the shipyards, American labor costs two to five times as much as its foreign equivalent. Management at times has been less than enlightened in dealing with labor, but creative bargaining can be hard. These unions distrust the owners, feud with each other, fear automation, and walk out with almost tidal regularity...
...after a week's wondering, I am conscience-bound to refuse your courteous invitation . . . Although I am very enthusiastic about most of your domestic legislation and intentions, I nevertheless can only follow our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust. We are in danger of imperceptibly becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation, and we may even be drifting on our way to the last nuclear ruin...
...listeners of the disastrous Arab summit meeting (TIME, June 4), which failed to reach agreement on a single agenda item. "We must face facts today and not close our eyes," Nasser declared. "Today each Arab state is afraid of the others. We are beset by suspicions, contradictions and distrust." This was confession enough, but the bombshell was still to come. Since the Arab states were not strong enough militarily to defend their planned diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River, declared Nasser, "then I say: let us postpone the diversion. We must provide for Arab defense before...
Smoldering distrust of the U.S. became defiance. When U.S. Charge d'Affaires William Trueheart formally threatened Diem with the statement that the U.S. would "dissociate" itself from the Saigon government's actions unless anti-Buddhist repressions ceased, Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu respond ed by raiding the Buddhist pagodas. That, in Mecklin's informed opinion, was the turning point. "The pagoda raids made it categorically impossible for the U.S. to try to go on with the regime," he writes. "Its handling of the Buddhist issue conclusively discredited the regime's claim to the political...
Robert Lowell '25' visiting professor of English, Wednesday refused an invitation to participate is a White House arts festival because of "the greatest dismay and distrust" with the Johnson Administration's foreign policy...