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Since the Soviets are notoriously paranoid about their satellites dealing with the West, Poland's request is being handled gingerly in Washington. The U.S. faces a delicate dilemma. On the one hand, the Kania government has been moderate so far and may be worth shoring up. On the other, the U.S. could find itself supporting a regime that might some day crush dissidents and the labor movement. In addition, the U.S. might be accused of meddling in Poland's internal affairs, a useful piece of propaganda for the Soviets if they ever intervene...
HUERA's vice president, Darleen Bonislawski, recently felt that brand of paranoid persecution. So did Ed Gardin, an HUERA shop steward. They had filed a grievance against Harvard on behalf of part-time workers and shortly afterwards began to feel the heat. The University, they believed, was harassing them for their union activity--Gardin complained of being followed, and Bonislawski stomped out of a meeting with the manager of custodial services when he told her she needed permission before doing union business during working hours. The union's contract stipulates that officials such as Bonislawski or Gardin must receive permission...
...death penalty be dug up for the present CFIA fellow. Thus Aquino remains in a precarious position--unable to either sanction terrorist bombings or to return home and find an alternative consitituency. He takes Marcos' latest diatribes with a combined sense of equanimity and bewilderment, terming the president "paranoid," or, in more ingenuous moments, "crazy...
America's economy has visited the nether reaches under Carter's guidance; yet his only response to the abject misery of millions is to emphasize the unfairness of life and induce a job-robbing recession. Abroad, despite his avowed commitment to "human rights," Carter has shared the acquisitive and paranoid biases of his predecessors. Be it in Cuba, where he tried to create his own missile crisis over the existence of a 15-year old Soviet combat brigade, be it in Iran, where he embraced the Shah and called him a man beloved by his people...
...Scientific Method. In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to nature: we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently disparate data...