Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...QUESTION, of course, is what happens next. Since the fighting began in Rhodesia in 1972, at least 3534 people have been killed. The government reports that 847 of the dead were black civilians, 71 of them white civilians, and 252 government soldiers. The figures are suspect--Smith's soldiers do not seem to be too careful about distinguishing between black civilians and black insurgents--but clearly people are dying. Last week, 96 people died, one of the worst weeks...
...interest of the United States to assure control over the secret petroleum deposits off the north shore of the island, or perhaps he made an empty offer as a gambit in the forthcoming debates over Puerto Rico in the United Nations Decolonization Committee. He gave good reason to suspect the latter when he used his arrival at the economic summit as an occasion for warning Cuba that the United States would never relinquish Puerto Rico. If we take him at his word, he acted out of sympathy with Puerto Rico's aspirations--no doubt, as he saw them through...
Cambridge and University police spokesmen yesterday refused to release any information about the case, but Cramer said the police suspect that the thief will have to abandon the car because he does not have a key to the gas tank...
...Friday evening. When he walked in, the men waiting for him identified themselves as agents of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French counterintelligence agency. They asked him to come to headquarters for a routine identity check. He did so without protest. Four days later the suspect was released-thereby touching off one of the most explosive international brouhahas in years. The affair triggered political repercussions from the Quai d'Orsay to the Nile, raised storms of outrage in Jerusalem and Bonn, severely embarrassed the government of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...head of an Al-Fatah commando team, rambled on for nearly three hours, spilling hitherto unknown details of P.L.O. terrorist plots and the inner workings of the guerrilla organization. Why had Abu Daoud been so candid? Had he been tortured into cooperation? Was he, as the Israelis still suspect, a Jordanian double agent? And why, after his release from prison in Amman, had he not been punished or even liquidated by the comrades whose secrets he had blabbed...