Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prison authorities are focusing their probe on an embezzler serving a 30- year term. The suspect, a clerk in the prison-industries program, has his own computer terminal. He is also suspected of participating in a scheme to doctor $50,000 worth of money orders...
...makes sense. If you can't prove that a group is doing something you suspect, then they must be hiding something. At least, this seemed to be the FBI's rationale. The declassified files show that the FBI even decided to investigate any opposition group even remotely interested in Central America. They checked out the Maryknoll sisters--a Catholic nuns' charity group which aids war refugees. the National Education Association--a non-political teacher's organization, and even the United Auto Workers...
...Reagan era, Shawn has written plays like Aunt Dan and Lemon, which dwell on questions of politics and people like Henry Kissinger. He has been true to his word. And I couldn't help thinking two thoughts. First, was he right? Is it so ethically suspect to be an American? And second, what does it mean that my values were being torn from the ground by a man who had only recently been the defender of a New Yorker's, if not an American's way of life...
Dole demanded an apology to his wife, but Bush refused to disavow the written statement. Political analysts suspect that paper was meant to put Dole on the defensive, shift attention away from the Vice President's still foggy Iran-contra role and goad the Kansas Senator into a display of his well-known temper. If so, it was at least partly a success...
...Committee also argues that Asian-Americans do not meet the criteria for diversity. This argument is the most suspect, since Asian Americans admitted here have shown that they can lead publications or play varsity sports in addition to becoming Marshall scholars. But all the statistics show that Asians are overrepresented in sciencerelated fields. If the Committee seeks a diverse student body and not just one filled with scientists, then it should reject those candidates that have nothing else to offer. If all caucasians were interested solely in the Classics, the Committee should not accept them all either...