Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become of Baldwin? Simply nothing. In contrast to his contemporary, Baldwin has not budged from his basic convictions. In last April's issue of Essence, he wrote: "The multitudinous bulk of [whites] sit, stunned, before their TV sets swallowing garbage that they know to be tormented by the suspicion that all men are brothers...
...this. Truman Capote, a perennial favorite, has recently been exonerated by the fact of his death If it is him, then he's calling from a long way away. A number of faculty members, including a sizeable portion of the English Department, have also been the object of suspicion. Suspicions also reflect the biases of the student body, since Ronald Reagan is accused at least twice as often as Walter Mondale, and three times more than Konstantin Chernenko, especially...
...choosing in positions of power. He should have little difficulty in doing so, since the Politburo has only ten members, in contrast to the 14 that had been usual under Leonid Brezhnev. But he probably will take his time in choosing his team, seeking instead to allay any suspicion that he is trying to monopolize power too quickly. "Gorbachev does not need to pack the Politburo with his own men," says one diplomat. "There do not seem to be any challengers to his rule...
...events was on the air. Any place else, the change in programming would not have been all that unusual, but in the Soviet Union of the past three years it was more than enough to prompt the concern that it had happened again--a Soviet leader had died. The suspicion was all but confirmed when regularly scheduled broadcasts during the following six hours were replaced by nature films and classical music. Having mastered the macabre code used to signal the death of Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982 and that of his successor Yuri Andropov only 15 months later, millions...
Harassment claims have resurfaced this semester. In February Currier House Junior Remigie Cruz '86 filed his second formal harassment complaint against the department. He argued that two officers, who said they stopped Cruz on suspicion of wearing illegal sand-filled gloves, had halted him because he was Puerto Rican. Cruz said this was the sixth time Harvard police had stopped him without adequate reason. A week later minority student Juan Gutierrez filed a harassment complaint claiming he had been subjected to unnecessary harassment by a Harvard guard while night-guarding at Currier House during the fall semester...