Word: mistrust
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...been performing as if détente were here." A recognition that the new relationship was an enveloping issue in the crisis was echoed in Moscow by Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who protested that "the opponents of détente are trying to revive the cold war and cause mistrust in peaceful coexistence by exploiting the hostilities in the Middle East...
Luce termed Soviet presence in the area "cautious" due to Arab mistrust, the failure of Soviet plans in Egypt, and the hostility of the Iranian government...
Theodore White sees these statistics as a growing trend of mistrust in central authority. Nixon, he believes, would fullfill the hope for decentralization. But White has become something of a central figure himself, closely tied to men who have sought and gained the office of the presidency, with all of its attendant power. As an historian he has made two inexcusable mistakes--of being too close to his subject, both personally and temporally. And so he, like Nixon in '72, is trying to fool the people. The election--and the book points out at least one thing...
...wonders whether a common mistrust of Britain might not eventually unite Ulstermen. In fact, there is already more contact between Protestant and Catholic politicians, even the extremists, than meets the eye. Among those advocating joint exploration of a "negotiated" independence from Britain is John Taylor, onetime Home Minister in the Stormont Cabinet. Taylor was the target of a machine-gun attack by an l.R.A. faction last year. Although still a hard-fisted Unionist, he has recently made discreet approaches to Northern republicans and now enjoys a vogue among Dublin editorialists. Still, the idea of independence, with its implication of British...
...what if it does not work? What happens if the talks begin again, without the hoped-for "good will" on the part of the North? Presumably, Nixon will be in an even more uncomfortable position than he was before the bombing. He will have gained nothing but the renewed mistrust of many European statesmen as well as a large segment of the American public. Having so dramatically expressed his dissatisfaction with the current demands of the North, like their insistence on tying the fate of American prisoners together with that of political prisoners in the South, it would be doubly...