Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chose Anthony Bevilacqua, 65, who had handled the ouster of a pro-choice nun in 1983. The see of Pittsburgh went to Donald Wuerl, 48, who had earlier been assigned to keep watch over Seattle's liberal Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Resentment over the Hunthausen affair is one cause of mistrust and disagreement between the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy. In the hope of improving relations, several dozen U.S. bishops will travel to Rome in March for a highly unusual face-to- face meeting with the Pontiff...
Even American Jews were surprisingly mild in their response to a move many of them deeply mistrust. Most of them trust George Shultz as the best friend Israel ever had, and that seemed to help them see beyond natural fear to the glimmer of hope these events refract. In a rare divergence from the Israeli government line, the major umbrella organization of American Jews said it would not fight the Administration's decision. "Knowing this man," said Morris Abram, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, "I believe he would like to produce peace...
...Levy, president of SAFF and a 3d-year law student, said the council's voting process "is not much respected at the Law School. There is a fundamental mistrust involved." He said, however, that he believed Melendez would be "dependable and fair-minded" in his running of the ballot boxes...
...talk, and no action," said one man. Mistrust was the general feeling: "There's just two of them; they've got no income, they just get donations." Someone else had met a man from New York who'd been there trying to track down some money he'd sent up; "said he was going to go to the postal authorities if he didn't find out what had happened...
...audaciously and with such impunity as Sullivan and Pillsbury. For a decade these two conservatives have moved in and out of the different branches of Government, relying on a network of contacts in the bureaucracies and the press to undermine proposals they disagree with. Both are motivated by deep mistrust of the Soviet Union. Sullivan has been an inveterate opponent of arms-control agreements, while Pillsbury has largely directed his efforts toward support of anti-Soviet guerrilla groups...