Word: suspected
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...centrifuge plant? Pakistan is a poor nation, and a plant like this one could cost at least $500 million. Many observers believe that Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who has long attempted to obtain an atomic bomb for his own country, is funding the Pakistani project. The Israelis suspect that Gaddafi may have struck some kind of deal with the Pakistanis, perhaps extracting a promise to sell Libya ground missiles fitted with nuclear warheads...
...have automatically obeyed FAA directives involving U.S.-made aircraft. When Washington withdrew the DC-10's airworthiness certificate on June 6, the Europeans promptly grounded their 10s too and undertook extensive FAA-required examinations of the engine pylons and wing attachment fittings, which National Transportation Safety Board investigators suspect may have had a key role in the cause of the U.S.'s worst airline catastrophe...
...mother alone is responsible for chemically induced birth defects. The father was considered blameless. At worst, a male's lifestyle-whether he took drugs, for example, or smoked or drank-might affect his own health but not that of his child. Now some doctors are beginning to suspect that dad's habits may be as damaging to the unborn child...
...shouted, "Jesus Christ, just who is in charge over there anyway?" Later the chairman produced a copy of a report from the FAA's regional office in Los Angeles, dated June 1, which noted that the flange on the aft bulkhead of the engine pylon-a part suspect in the DC-10 crash-may have cracked under stress. Bond admitted he had not seen the report. Burton stood again and declared acidly, "It would be helpful to the public if you read your own documents where they relate to the public's safety...
...Intelligence Unit to share their files on a more systematic basis. Almost unknown to outsiders, L.E.I.U. has since acquired a membership of 227 state and local police departments in the U.S. and Canada. Now, like the FBI a few years ago, L.E.I.U. is being criticized by civil libertarians who suspect it of spreading vague suspicions about citizens who may have done nothing worse than champion unpopular political causes...