Word: distrusts
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This effect would also undermine unit cohesion. According to military experts the distrust and anxiety homosexuals would create would make it difficult for a unit to act as a team in a combat situation. Individual soldiers would not feel they could always depend on their homosexual counterparts in dangerous situations. These soldiers would be less willing to take the risks necessary to succeed in combat. As a result, American soldiers could die needlessly, helpless guinea pigs in a social experiment gone wrong...
...citizen militias." They are the armed, militarized edge of a broader group of disgruntled citizenry that go by the label of "patriots." The members of the larger patriot movement are usually family men and women who feel strangled by the economy, abandoned by the government and have a distrust for those in power that goes well beyond that of the typical angry voter. Patriots join the militias out of fear and frustration. Says Jim Barnett, leader of a Florida militia: "The low-life scum that are supposedly representing us in Washington, D.C., don't care about the people back home...
...exile. It is a measure of Haiti's desperation that the country's remarkable progress has been surpassed only by the magnitude of what remains to be done. Despite achievements that exceed all but the most optimistic expectations, Haiti is still bankrupt and riven by social disarray and class distrust. Even the President, who continues to sleep on a fold-up cot in his office, seems stunned by the problems. "This country is like a battered old truck that's stuck," Aristide confided to a friend. "Pushing it will not start it. It needs technical work on the engine...
...finish purging the institution of all its corrupt officers, some of whom are pro-Aristide. Another concern is Haiti's police; they are being weaned by American trainers from decades of abusive habits, but ordinary citizens continue to despise and distrust them. Despite the confusion and uncertainty, most people seem cautiously satisfied. The poor, who once huddled indoors after dark fearing attacks by government thugs, now roam the streets at all hours. "The people are amazingly patient," says a professor at the national university. "They know it's night and day from three months ago. They can breathe freely...
...kick off of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with a schedule for scuttling 9,000 U.S. and former Soviet nuclear warheads by the turn of the century, Boris Yeltsin complained about NATO's vote last week to consider membership for former Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion." A Clinton Administration official dismissed Yeltsin's criticism as "alarmist...