Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paranoia about the Soviet Union overrides other Administration goals as well, often with deleterious effects. By impeding the exchange of discoveries, the government may channel hundreds of lab hours and millions of dollars into duplicative research...
...terror that he inspired is likely to live on, and with altogether too good reason. There have been mass murders that were more brutal and claimed more victims. But there have been few if any so exquisitely attuned to the anonymity and impersonality of modern urban and suburban life. Paranoia is supposed to be an irrational fear, but who can now say that it is silly to dread that innocent bottle of capsules? -By George J. Church. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Adam Zagorin/ New York
Like the nuclear arms race, the space race is characterized by rhetorical half-truths, hysterical warnings and a sizable dose of governmental paranoia. Robert Jastrow, founder of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goodard Institute for Space Studies, has asserted in a recent New York Times Magazine article that "since Sputnik, Moscow has undertaken a massive military space program that appears designed to do nothing less than control space." But apart from shadowy references to a 1957 speech by then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Jastrow's case against the USSR relied mainly on speculation...
...poison and paranoia have mostly gone out of the issue of race in Alabama. (Look for them more in South Boston, say, there in a cradle of abolitionism.) The countryside is peaceful now along the route from Selma to Montgomery, through Dallas County and "bloody Lowndes," the old Black Belt over which so many gusts of racial violence have passed. But still one looks across the cotton fields at the tall, deep Alabama forests that are primordially rich and inviting and sinister...
Tough being a cow. Since 1969 there have been 10,000 killed and mutilated in the Western states. That is documented. Thereafter, speculation begins. Is this the work of religious cults? Little green men from Mars? Endangered Species opts for paranoia. It is all the product of a right-wing conspiracy that needs livers to test chemical-warfare agents. If you take the sensible view that any plot requiring more than three people to keep their mouths shut is bound to fail, this premise will seem far fetched. For as the story develops, we see that hundreds are involved...