Word: suspicion
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Earl Baker, 19, Steven Booker, 19, and Anthony Freeman, 18, all drowned while in custody of three county deputies. They had been arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession at the annual "Juneteenth" public festival (commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas first heard they had been freed). While the officers were ferrying the youths across Lake Mexia, the small boat capsized 80 feet from shore. The deputies swam to safety, which was impossible for their handcuffed captives. The Dallas Medical Examiner found that none of the suspects had any traces of marijuana in their bodies. The deputies were acquitted...
Your story illustrates the tragedy of affirmative action. As long as identifiable racial and ethnic groups are given extra assistance, the suspicion will exist that minority employees who make it have not done so on their own. They will be considered less qualified than people who were not given similar help. Ironically, the black executive is relegated to second-class status by the programs that seek to elevate...
...must (in movies like this it is only by fighting that men can become friends), the whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think the clumsy thing is going to do them...
...Pont in 1968, and is now responsible for divisional sales of about $15 million. He observes, "In a company like this, sophisticated and genteel society that it is, it is difficult to define manifest prejudice. But no matter how long I have been here, there is always the suspicion when I negotiate a contract that maybe I didn't bring home as much as I might have if I were white...
DIED. Elio Petri, 53, sardonic leftist Italian film director who won an Oscar in 1971 for his Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, a complex, unsettling study of a high police official who perversely becomes a killer but is unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although he broke with the Communist Party in 1956, Petri filmed cerebral fables intertwining politics and psychosis (The Tenth Victim, Todo Modo) that he considered propaganda for the oppressed. He acknowledged, however, that he craftily "coated the pill" with swift plots, kinky surfaces and a fidgety mosaic style...