Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether through direct rationing by the government or indirect conservation in the marketplace, our next president must be prepared to remove the fetters oil imports place on our domestic and foreign policies. Through conservation, he can do so with less loss of life, less paranoia, and less danger of nuclear holocaust than through a self-destructive call to the Cold War colors...
Gromyko's warning about interference by Peking and Washington gave credence to the theory that one factor in the Kremlin's Afghan adventurism may well have been its longstanding paranoia about China and its fears of a new U.S.-China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training...
...more vulnerable than the U.S.; the Soviet Union is hundreds, not thousands, of miles away. The French also have an economic stake in détente: last year trade between the two nations amounted to $3.7 billion. Yet too often France's search for independence translates as paranoia about seeming to take orders from Washington...
...simply an adjective, a pejorative applied to any form of government control. John Birchers have a nearly pathological fear of government control; the line blurrs between traffic lights and the abolition of private property, both forms of governmental intrusion into people's lives. It is nostalgia tempered with paranoia. Publications like "The Glorification of M. L. King-A Victory for World Communism," show their confusion between real Communism, and any threat to the society's world inside 395 Concord Ave.. a place Peter Schrag called "hermetic reality...