Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news spread through the 7,100-island archipelago, it was greeted first with incredulity-and then with joy. After more than a year of suspense, the 54.5 million people of the Philippines had at last received an authoritative confirmation of their deepest suspicion: the military did it. Specifically, a fact-finding board appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos concluded that Benigno Aquino, the exiled opposition leader assassinated at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, only moments after his return to the Philippines, was not killed by Rolando Galman, the alleged Communist gunman who was identified by the military...
...must be held as certain that a plot existed to kill the Pope." After nearly three years of investigation, Judge Ilario Martella added official credibility last week to a suspicion long held by much of the world. The judge did not, however, say who directed the conspiracy or what its aims might have been. Instead, Martella ordered three Bulgarians and four Turks to be tried for conspiring to kill the Pope. In signing the secret 1,243-page summary of the case, Martella made another extraordinary allegation: two people fired at John Paul...
...None of us had any suspicion," said Donald Abrams, also a first year student...
Marsden had received reports of a similar sighting from other sources and determined that they were the same object. Astronomers in California photographed the region of suspicion, and, shortly after, they confirmed that the object was a comet--one which had come closer to Earth than any other comet in the past 200 years...
...avoid any suspicion of giving in to dissenters, the Vatican insisted that local bishops must give permission for the Tridentine rite to be used, but only to those who do not doubt the legitimacy of the present-day Mass. While parishes can use it only in "extraordinary" circumstances, Vatican sources predict that there will not be much call for it since most Catholics approve of the revised rituals. Nevertheless, Archbishop Lefebvre reacted over French radio: "I am very happy. Perhaps now our situation will change...