Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit. Like Haiti's feared Tonton Macoute, members of the squad are almost always dressed in sports shirts and wear dark glasses even at night. They are given to cruising Kampala streets in their Peugeots, stopping occasionally to pick up a suspect. The unlucky victim is pushed into the car, driven off and seldom seen again...
...When I first came to college in 1945, people were very interested in Russia," Barbara Bishop Bartle said. "There was a great push to take Russian history and language courses. But when the Cold War began around 1947, people became very suspect of those who had shown interest in Russia...
...occasional hint of the abject contrition that marked his final statement to the bench, and it offers little fresh evidence about the evolution of the Watergate crimes. He guesses Nixon was involved all along in the coverup: "Based on my knowledge of how the White House operated, I would suspect that once the burglars were arrested, Nixon immediately demanded and got the full story, and that thereafter he kept in close personal touch with the cover-up operation." But he does not know for certain. It is nonetheless a remarkable book, affording damning and often unintended insights into the author...
...S.K.I. last year. He was the co-author of several of Summerlin's papers. The committee found that Good did not knowingly misrepresent his colleague's work, but it did imply that he should have exercised closer control -especially after November 1973, when he began to suspect the validity of Summerlin's work...
Along with an emerging picture of moral bankruptcy comes a frightening vision of basic contempt for the fundamentals of representative government and its sensitive institutions. It is one thing to suspect that an Administration could regard the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Internal Revenue Service as instruments of revenge. It is another thing to read a President's own words on getting back at political enemies through heavy retaliation. It is chilling...