Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alert on South Africa's future." McWhirter interviewed Minister of Justice James Kruger on the Stephen Biko affair, and has met with Afrikaner students, Boer families, colored leaders and young black militants. "One disheartening thing that has happened in the past few months," he says, "is the growing suspicion in Soweto, the black ghetto outside Johannesburg, toward all whites. When I first arrived, a black friend was enough, then a press card, then an American accent. Today it is difficult to gain their trust...
...sprawling black suburb of Soweto, outside Johannesburg; urban black unrest has continued sporadically across the country ever since, taking more than 600 lives. Two months ago, a young black leader, Stephen Biko, 30, died mysteriously in prison. An inquest is still pending, but there is widespread suspicion that prison beating contributed to his death. The Biko case produced further disorder, and on Oct. 19 the government responded by arresting or "banning"?a unique form of near-solitary confinement which can include house arrest?some 60 individuals, 18 organizations and two newspapers. Last week, during a house-to-house sweep...
...words Holocaust mentality give the impression of delusional thinking on the part of Jews and that these feelings of suspicion, betrayal, etc., are not based on any reality. Jews do not have the problems; they exist with people throughout the world who try to deny that the Holocaust ever happened...
...security laws. Banned individuals are, in effect, under house arrest for as long as the Justice Minister chooses. They may not contact more than one person at a time, other than immediate family. Their movements are restricted and they may not be quoted in the press. Individuals apprehended on suspicion of posing a threat to South Africa's security, under a new law passed last year, can be detained indefinitely without trial. Justifying the harsh steps, Kruger explained to the nation on a TV broadcast that the government had acted swiftly to defuse a dangerous "revolutionary climate," fueled...
...Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as an indication that Carter may after all be an antibusiness Georgia populist rather than the fiscal conservative he has often seemed. Says Frank Borman, the former astronaut who now heads Eastern Air Lines: "He is casting suspicion on business in general, and that is unfortunate. He doesn't have a very good idea of what 90% of the businessmen in this country are like." Adds Edson Spencer, president of Honeywell Inc., the computer maker: "The way he said it makes you think there is some instability there...