Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DILEMMA OF DISTRUST...
When Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale addressed the conference, he discussed what may be the greatest impediment to effective leadership: distrust. Said Mondale: "John Gardner [head of Common Cause] once said that 20th century institutions have been caught in a savage crossfire between uncritical lovers and unloving critics. Gardner said that love without criticism brings stagnation and criticism without love brings destruction." What was needed, Mondale went on, was "a loving criticism of our society and its institutions...
...main problem in Cairo was that too many of the Arab states distrust each other's intentions in Lebanon. Specifically, many of the leaders were unhappy about the 21,000-man Syrian force that President Hafez Assad had dispatched to Lebanon; initially sent to impose an armistice between the warring factions, the Syrians later sided with the rightist Christians in battles against the Moslem leftists and their Palestinian allies. In Riyadh, the Arab leaders agreed that some or all of the Syrian troops would be part of the new peace-keeping force, which is to be bankrolled largely...
...That outcry against the radicals' campaigns has been echoed in other wall posters witnessed by travelers to China. One apparently authentic article that surfaced in Taiwan, reportedly from a high-ranking officer in the Tientsin garrison command, complains that "the result of incessant campaigns has already been mutual distrust among the people, the cadres and the leaders, which affects unity and obstructs progress...
Carter in a real sense has used the South. He has adopted what he liked and what was useful to him and tried to reject what he did not like or was not useful. His view of himself and the world has been shaped in large part by a distrust of big money, power and government, the dedication to the heroic mythology of the Confederacy and its gentle traditions that were so often belied by violent reality, the fundamentalist religion, the romantic belief in the redeeming qualities of rural life, and the sense of the region's old isolation...