Word: mistrustfulness
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...policy aimed at inducing Israel to behave more compatibly with American global interests does not mean abandoning or even diminishing the special U.S. relationship with Israel. Just the opposite, in fact: it might help rescue that relationship from the mistrust, misunderstandings and misconceptions that have begun to eat at its foundations-starting with the delusion that Israel is, or ever has been, primarily a strategic ally. Whether they think of themselves as hardheaded or sentimental, both Israelis and friends of Israel in the U.S. must realize that for all the very real external threats faced by the Jewish state, none...
...Basques were among the fiercest fighters against Franco during the Spanish Civil War, so enraging the dictator that he subsequently levied special punishments against the northern provinces, including the removal of their long-cherished political autonomy. In a sense, the Basque problem, with its overlays of terrorism, bloodshed and mistrust, is the most enduring and dangerous legacy of that ugly fratricidal period...
...foyer, and watched the mob gather outside, waiting for the doors to open. The receiving committee was already inside, and they surveyed the mob with looks of pleased smugness--they were official. At first they had looked at the Intern and the Foreign Car Driver with mistrust, but then they became chummy. "We're all insiders here," winked one man. He looked as if he'd seen one too many Jimmy Stewart movies...
...started with cave paintings when they put the Odyssey and Iliad to verse. Praises of exceptional men were to be sung. News today may be little more than bookkeeping, closer to ledger accounting than anything else. But even now we respond, almost intuitively, to heroes. Maybe with a little mistrust, to be sure, but still intuitively. Even Fortune magazine profiles petroleum executives in terms of bloody business combatants: vicious merger bids being the modern equivalent of a head on a lance...
...sophisticated qualities necessary for the prudent exercise of power and intelligent management of international relations-notably moral authority, self-confidence, respect for the rule of law, and political finesse-are stunted in the Soviet system and psychology. The present downward spiral of mutual mistrust and recrimination will clearly not lead to an inevitable nuclear apocalypse, but it can do a lot of damage just the same. It increases the difficulties and dangers involved in virtually every other international problem the U.S. faces. It thus follows that after a suitable interval the U.S. should take the initiative in statesmanship with...