Word: suspicion
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...positive tone of the treatment - "the inspirational story of one of the greatest legends," according to a trailer - that marks a break from the past. And that may reflect the fact that a country that has viewed war with deep suspicion for the past half century is now beginning to send men into combat in faraway lands. "This would not have been possible ten years ago," says Joachin Castan, author of the 2007 biography of the flying ace, Der Rote Baron. "It is now possible to ask the question in Germany, 'Can there be a war hero?'" (The film...
...Tuesday Zimbabwe entered its third day of waiting for the results of a general election amid mounting evidence that the opposition had narrowly defeated President Robert Mugabe - and increasing suspicion that his ruling regime was trying to rig the results. But as the delay continued, speculation grew over the reasons for manipulating the results...
...delays in releasing the results have prompted speculation that the regime is attempting to fix the poll. There are ample grounds for suspicion: elections in 2000, 2002 and 2005 were marred by violence and rigging. In Washington on Monday, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey urged that the results be released. "The opportunities for mischief increase the longer the delay is between the elections and the announcement," he said. Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described Mugabe as a "disgrace," while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned that the "eyes of the world" were on Zimbabwe...
...they host the U.S. missile-defense system. Russia is also playing a cat-and-mouse game with Georgia: Early last month, Putin eased his blockade of the country and resumed air and sea transportation links, severed in October 2006 over the arrest of Russian personnel by the Georgians on suspicion of espionage. At the same time, Russia has invoked "the Kosovo precedent" to turn up the heat on Georgia by upgrading Moscow's ties with Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, falling just short of formally recognizing their independence...
...People remember him from the blur of conferences and meetings. In international field work, not being white can make it easier to gain the trust of local populations - Sanjayan recalls an early field trip to an African nation in the wake of apartheid, when being white meant earning instant suspicion. But he admits to being troubled that at a time when the U.S. may finally be ready to elect an African-American to the Presidency, the country's major environmental groups have yet to be led by a non-white. "It's pretty surprising, and at the same time...