Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author finds Matthew's guilt as an Ibiza layabout a trifle more fascinating than the case warrants, and any reader who has put in time loafing in the European sun may suspect that he understands the inspiration for The Spanish Soldier. Buckholz himself lives on Ibiza, and his novel about Matthew's motiveless quest simply reflects an expatriate's guilty belief that he should face reality-which is to say, go back to the U.S. and get mugged in the subway...
...since July 9 of last year. Police now believe that three of the victims were hitchhiking when they were murdered, and that all seven of the murders may have been committed by a new "Boston Strangler." Although the murders remain officially unsolved, the police are now holding a prime suspect, and Middlesex Attorney General John Droney has promised that he will seek a murder indictment before the end of February. Police refuse to identify the man they are holding, but several Boston newspapers have reported that he is a former Dorchester resident now being held in the Billerica House...
...letter-bomb-one of many sent to Israeli officials round the world. Somewhat more ambiguous is the case of Khodr Kanou, 36, a Syrian journalist in Paris, who was shot to death in his apartment doorway three months ago. Kanou, it turned out, was a double agent; French police suspect that Palestinians killed him for exposing Black September operations...
...changed drastically under the impact of this war. In the eyes of the disaffected, the American way of life itself became suspect. If it could lead to Viet Nam, then how could it be trusted in other respects? To the critics, all American institutions eventually seemed to be tainted, the democratic process itself in jeopardy. Compromise gave way to confrontation, and violence increasingly became the means of settling disputes. America split into distinct social parts: one iconoclastic and alienated, the other clinging more stubbornly than ever to the traditional values under assault. It was a country that could scarcely...
...takes care of all baptisms, will soon perform several weddings, gives instruction to converts and visits the sick. "I always had it in the back of my mind to work for the Lord," he says. As for how his calling affects his work at the laboratory, he says: "I suspect maybe I don't hear as many dirty jokes as I used...