Word: suspicion
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...first to dissociate the College from the Final Clubs and, now, to persuade students that membership in them is dishonorable. Given the modest role of the Clubs in the life of the College, they seem a curious target for such sustained reformist zeal. It is hard to resist the suspicion that a pinch of self-righteousness and a dollop of envy are amongst the campaigners' motivations...
...lifted martial law in 1981, he did not give up his authority to rule by decree. In recent years, however, Marcos' position has been eroded by his inability to contain a growing Communist insurgency, by charges of favoritism and economic mismanagement, by his intermittent ill health and by public suspicion about the Aquino assassination...
...obligation to do so. Who better than the students and teachers of Harvard to employ this right? It is risky, of course, to use the word "right" so freely. By putting this word in quotations, as well as "worthy," "making a statement," "moral," and "consciousness," Mr. Green throws suspicion on anyone who uses these words with good intent...
DIED. Helen MacInnes, 77, best-selling novelist of international intrigue; in New York City. Four of her 21 books, including Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, were made into movies. She was married for 46 years to Gilbert Highet, the noted classics scholar and critic who accompanied her on European research trips and who died...
Following the abduction, President Duarte received messages of sympathy from President Reagan and other world leaders. But the people he most wanted to hear from, the kidnapers, remained silent. Suspicion centered on the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the leftist rebel organization that in recent months has threatened to take its struggle against the Duarte government into El Salvador's cities. That campaign got under way last June when an F.M.L.N. terrorist squad gunned down 13 people, including four off-duty U.S. Marines, in a San Salvador outdoor cafe...