Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decorated men who, at the behest of Uncle Sam, participated in the Viet Nam War. Since soldiers are so often accorded the benefit of the doubt, why is the same courtesy so infrequently extended to war resisters? Why do so many of us look upon them with contempt and suspicion, denouncing them for their adamant refusal to obey edicts that countermand what should be the most binding of all edicts: the Sixth Commandment...
Methodical Ruthlessness. Later reports confirmed that suspicion. Radio Ethiopia broadcast a charge by the safe Mengistu that Benti and his aides had been killed because they were secret supporters of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. The E.P.R.P. is a leftist underground group of students and businessmen trying to replace military rule with civilian government. Mengistu claimed he had discovered a 47-page master plan, belonging to Benti, that blueprinted the installation of the E.P.R.P. as a government to replace the "scientific socialism" of the military council...
...President Nixon listened far more to his Treasury Secretaries, George Shultz and John Connally, than to his CEA chairmen. The council reached its lowest point under Herbert Stein, who not only was overshadowed by Shultz in policy-making but also defended Administration policy so incessantly as to arouse suspicion that politics was warping his professional judgment. Alan Greenspan* restored the CEA's professional respectability largely by staying out of the public eye and talking primarily to President Ford-a course Schultze seems most unlikely to follow...
...Mordechai Rubenstein, 40, and Giora Rubenstein, 31, who with their father Aharon operate one of Israel's biggest construction companies, were arrested last month on suspicion of income tax evasion. The Rubenstein firm is a major government housing contractor...
...famous father. Others say Murdoch's ambition is to overcome his resentment at being forever considered an outsider?at Geelong Grammar, at Oxford, in Sydney, on Fleet Street. Up to a point, Murdoch agrees: "New York welcomes newcomers. In England, if one is an outsider there is suspicion." Still other Murdoch-watchers explain that the inveterate gambler is merely playing two-up with bigger stakes these days. Too bloody right, admits Murdoch: "Publishing is a life of constant calculated risks. That's also what gambling...