Word: suspected
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James W. Lewis, 36, sought on charges of extortion and unlawful flight in the case, was picked up at the mid-Manhattan branch of the New York City Public Library. Librarian Donald Alexis spotted the suspect when the bespectacled Lewis, wearing blue jeans, walked by the librarian's fourth-floor reference desk. "I just glanced up at him," Alexis said, "and in a flash, something seemed familiar." Alexis then rechecked the man's features against those on an FBI poster tacked up in the staff room. When federal agents arrived, the fugitive was at a table quietly copying...
...institutionalized the practice, a fact that Mexicans have recognized with equanimity. But during López Portillo's term of office, the scale of corruption reached such levels that even normally tolerant citizens, particularly in the country's burgeoning middle class, were scandalized. Among other things, Mexicans suspect that as many as 1 million phony jobs were created in the country's economy, while government officials and others siphoned off the paychecks for nonexistent workers...
...attack-to "use them or lose them." The MX, in effect, would put the superpowers into the position of holding hair-trigger pistols to each other's heads. In this way, it would become part of the American strategic problem rather than the solution. Some Western experts even suspect the Soviets may already have adopted a launch-on-warning doctrine...
...suspicions, new suspect...
...crush a revolution; membership in the inner circle that decided Czechoslovakia deserved an invasion in 1968. He has also been a longtime quasher of dissidents, and was eager to remove civil liberties from Poland. Noteworthy as such information is, none of it has the exhilarating effect of making one suspect Mr. Andropov has the gypsy in his soul...