Word: paranoiac
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...Nixon's latest attempt to explain away--and subsidize--his retirement years is not entirely without insight or interest. His paranoiac sliminess aside (a big aside). Nixon does evince some of the flashes of political acumen and pragmatic grasp of world affairs that surfaced from time to time during his shortened Administration. Thirty years of hobnobbing in the world's corridors of power have somewhat of a rubbing-off effect, as Nixon himself wouldn't hesitate to tell us: It sure beats some other forms of occupation, like acting for instance. But this is getting ahead of the game...
Sandinista speeches also began to take on a decidedly paranoiac tinge, helped along, in part, by U.S. naval maneuvers last October off the nearby Honduran coast. When Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned that the country's enemies "will be hanging along the roads and highways" in the event of a U.S. invasion, COSEP leaders reacted. In an open letter, they charged that "the national economy shows no signs of recuperation, social peace has not been found, the country finds itself in spiraling debt, with no foreseeable end." The directorate thereupon threw four COSEP leaders in jail, along with...
...known to believe that dissident elements within his country are backed by Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq. Like Iran, Syria views the gulf war as an American-backed plot that could lead to its encirclement by conservative Arab forces. Thus the war has intensified Syria's already nearly paranoiac feeling of isolation. Assad, who in the past has rejected any formal treaty links with the Soviet Union, is scheduled to visit Moscow this week. He just might be ready to sign a friendship treaty with his hosts...
Former Attorney General Griffin Bell suspects it was "someone who got caught in the Watergate syndrome, a paranoiac who thought the Justice Department would just sit on the whole thing, someone who thinks no one can be trusted." The New York Times published a long set of questions and answers about Abscam, including one on why leakers leak, but didn't think it necessary to discuss why newspapers publish information that could presumably wait until formal charges are filed. Convinced that news of Abscam was getting out, the FBI hurriedly completed its last interviews on the very Saturday that...
...complicated than racism or antiSemitism, and its origins lie deep in American history. It would be strange if a few years of ecumenical feeling - or simple religious indifference - could obliterate all trace of what Historian John Higham of Johns Hopkins University has called "the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history...