Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months is a chapter in a long history of racial struggle in the United States, but it's also a chapter in a long history of class struggle among white New Englanders. In this latter history, people's sympathies belong with the working people of South Boston, whose distrust for well-off suburban liberals is entirely justified--even though it ignores the far greater social engineering that prompted Garrity's order, the School Committee's purposeful segregation of Boston's schools through construction and zoning plans over the years...
...Middle East. On the other hand, he may only have been a bit apprehensive about seeing India's proud, mercurial Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Their last meeting, which coincided with the start of a U.S. "tilt" toward Pakistan during the Bangladesh crisis of 1971, ended in mutual distrust. Mrs. Gandhi has since been known to turn livid at the very mention of Kissinger's name. Prospects for a successful encounter seemed dim after India's National Herald, on the day of Kissinger's arrival, published an interview with Mrs. Gandhi in which she complained that Americans...
Kissinger nevertheless negotiated an agreement that will provide India with between 500,000 and 1 million tons of inexpensively priced wheat on a long-term deferred-payment plan. The bilateral good will was further enhanced when Kissinger publicly labeled the U.S.'s attitude during the cold war of distrust toward uncommitted nations like India as "anachronistic and self-defeating." By accepting India's neutrality between East and West as "an altogether understandable and practical" position, Kissinger laid to rest a grudge that New Delhi has borne toward Washington since former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles used...
Many of the speakers at the conference said affirmative action programs are losing support. President Bok said Friday that "a political shift in the country" has endangered the programs. "People have come to distrust the government and its efforts in social engineering," he said...
Part of the trend stems from wide spread disillusionment over Viet Nam, part from the multifarious crimes of Watergate that ruined so many reputations and deepened public distrust. Now there is a new and spreading skepticism about the pronouncements of the mighty, a new impatience with politics as usual, a new eagerness to challenge practices that were once bunked at. This demand for higher standards can have practical benefits. Last week, for instance, President Ford signed a long overdue campaign-financing reform bill. The voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency...