Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some within the military. Besides those officers upset by his peace initiatives, a handful of others resent his successful effort to reduce the number of assassinations carried out by right- wing death squads, some of which are part of the military's intelligence service. Duarte has reason to mistrust the military. Several officers have been implicated in kidnapings of wealthy Salvadorans, crimes that were blamed on the guerrillas. One is under house arrest, but another, Lieut. Colonel Roberto Mauricio Staben, still holds an important field command...
...homosexual is that I don't have to pay all that alimony") to a tearstained, self-blaming recollection of his sister Rose's lobotomy. Eerily, even at his most private and abandoned moments, this Williams surreptitiously watches what impact he is having on his audience. However much he may mistrust fame, he hungers for it; death is discussed chiefly in terms of how much space his obituary would merit in the New York Times...
...robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata Isozaki and Fashion Designer Issey Miyake will be on from Tokyo, and outside Seoul, cameras will follow the running of the marathon at the Asian Games. "The hardest part was not raising the money but dealing with three different countries that historically mistrust one another," notes Korean- born Paik, 54, who clearly remains unfazed by such geopolitical interference. He is already looking forward to his next project, a live global broadcast during the 1988 Seoul Olympics...
...vivid reminder that Soviet-American relations operate according to Murphy's Law: given the depths of hostility and mistrust between the superpowers, whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Over the years a lot has gone wrong, and the timing has often scuttled the best-laid plans of statesmen, including some of the Soviet Union's own. In May 1960 an American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic...
...discussions at the Vienna International Center opened, however, the amiable, and often impenetrable, dialogue was marred by doubts and mistrust. Some Western experts complained that the Soviets were too stingy with vital technical data about the April 26 disaster, and too reluctant to admit to design flaws in their reactors. The Soviets insisted that their designs were basically safe, and that "gross" human error had caused history's worst nuclear power catastrophe. Said one Canadian expert: "They seem to be saying, 'You can criticize our operators but not our machines...