Word: mistrustfulness
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EXTRALEGAL protest over Columbia's investment policies differed from the symbolic Dow demonstration; Columbia's faculty, students, and trustees have held irreconciliable opinions on basic questions in a community where there was little confidence in the capacity of the President and trustees to govern. In this climate of mistrust, a participatory democracy (i.e., various student-faculty checks on the trustees) must exist to prevent extralegal action...
More importantly, the disguising of the police can only serve to create mistrust and suspicion between people. And this cannot be justified solely by the argument that plainclothesman help to catch lawbreakers. Law enforcement must always serve the law itself, and the ultimate purpose of the law should be to promote security and cohesion between all members of society...
...mistrust of the State Department, which he has described as "the most ornate bureaucracy since the Ming Dynasty," was not altogether unfounded. Once, when he was away from New Delhi, an aide handed him a coded message from Washington. How was he to read it without a decoding machine? The practice, the aide said, was to call Washington?on the telephone?and ask what was in the message...
...center of last summer's rioting. "But it has nothing to do with the war." None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality," says Negro Medic John Crews, "to know that the V.C. draw no color lines in their killing or mutilating American soldiers-black or white." When it comes to standing up to Victor Charlie, there is no color difference among...
...remain faithful to my many American friends. Even if some of your readers advocate a boycott of French products, I shall keep on wearing Arrow shirts, drinking bourbon and reading TIME magazine. I hope the plain people of our countries will not be carried away in an escalade of mistrust and retaliation...