Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is considerable tension between the workers and NIOC Chief Nazih. They had originally cheered him because he was the Ayatullah Khomeini's man, but now they view him with suspicion as they try to balance then" demands with the need to keep the industry going fairly smoothly and economically. Nazih, a lawyer, is in over his head trying to direct a complex oil industry, and his superiors know it. He may well be ousted soon...
...However, it fails to note the need for intelligence charter legislation. The aim of charters is to authorize proper CIA activities and provide for effective congressional and executive oversight. Such legislation, which will reflect a broad consensus, should do much to remove what you term a "debilitating cloud of suspicion" from CIA operations and let it go ahead with its vital work...
...kind of gas rationing may become necessary, but the Administration bungled its proposal and Congress shortsightedly rejected the whole idea. Carter made two serious errors. First, in order to get his new tax on windfall oil profits, he railed so vehemently against oil-company "ripoffs" that he fanned public suspicion that the shortage is a hoax-though the Administration knows quite well it is not. Then the Administration presented a poorly drafted stand-by rationing plan; and when that came under fire, which should have been anticipated, it scrambled madly to find some kind of compromise that could get through...
...there is simply no hard evidence to support this concern. New York Attorney Ira Millstein, co-founder of the Columbia University Center for Law and Economic Studies, observed: "There are feelings about large mergers, there are emotions about large mergers. There is a suspicion about size and its relationship to the power and politics of society. But there is an almost total lack of responsible research in the area...
Today the CIA is not equipped for its role because it continues to operate under a debilitating cloud of suspicion. Until the early 1970s, its mission was pretty much taken for granted and its methods were seldom questioned. Then a series of revelations deluged it with hostile publicity for the first time. The agency was implicated in assassination attempts on foreign leaders-only a very few, but a few too many. Other abuses were also uncovered by a press seemingly ravenous for CIA misdeeds; inevitably there were gross exaggerations...