Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moonies blame the mayor for stirring up resentment against them, but there is widespread sullen suspicion in town about the church's plans. So far, however, no Moonies have tried to lure the young of Gloucester into their ranks, and no legal charges of any kind have been filed against the church and its operations...
Says he: "If it was just a new business moving in, I wouldn't mind. But they're a mixture of church and business, and I think there's got to be more than the eye sees." The Moonies have aroused similar suspicion in Westchester County just north of New York City, where they have made extensive real estate investments in recent years. The vigilant town fathers of Gloucester hope to find a way of revoking the purchase of the retreat house on legal technicalities, and are ready to fight the church if it tries...
Meanwhile, the Moonies claim that for all the suspicion around town, some members of the citizenry would like to do even more business with them. Says Denny Townsend, 33, co-manager of the church's lobster plant: "I have people in my office every week who want to sell me a piece of Gloucester...
Nonetheless, there were some rough spots. Agreements on policy did not mean that the leaders got along better with one another than they have at past meetings. Carter is still regarded with suspicion and indeed disdain by some European leaders, who think that he is too much of an amateur in statecraft. But for the most part, allied tensions ebbed in the tranquil setting of la Serenissima...
...traditional apparatus of American hope and self-improvement: hard work and saving. The nation's allies have developed the habit of treating it with public condescension and private contempt. Voters face a choice for President in November that leaves many of them shaking their heads. An uneasy suspicion has formed that the U.S. is about to leave the sweeping interstate highway it has cruised along for more than a generation, and return to a two-lane blacktop. Or worse. That is a heretical direction of thought for Americans. For most of the nation's 204 years, pessimism...