Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the nagging suspicion among American space observers that the Soviet Union is pulling ahead of the U.S. is turning into reality. While the American space program is gridlocked over when and how to deploy a space station, for example, the Soviet Mir (Peace) station, up for more than a year, has been manned for half that time and is now being expanded. This year the U.S. has carried out only four successful orbital launches, while the Soviets have had 37. The U.S. space shuttle is grounded until at least the summer of 1988. In the meantime, the evidence grows...
...starring role in a play called A Woman Named Drown. In fact, this performance has given her the urge to get away for a while; after playing a woman accused of sleeping with a black, Mary thinks some of her Knoxville neighbors have started to harbor the same suspicion about her. Before long, Mary gives Al all of her late husband Stump's golfing togs, packs him into her Mercury and takes off for Florida...
...business of espionage, William Casey operated in a world of manipulated fact and disinformation, a place where candor is rarely considered a virtue and anyone asking questions should be treated with suspicion. No, he insisted from the first, he knew nothing about money from Iranian arms sales being funneled to the contras. Even Richard Secord, who helped oversee the diversion of funds and testified on Capitol Hill last week about his meetings with Casey, could not say with certainty whether the CIA director knew...
...John Demjanjuk, 66, accused of being the sadistic guard "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp, has entered its 13th week, with a verdict expected next fall. Last week Austrian President and former United Nations Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim, 68, recently barred from entering the U.S. on suspicion of abetting Nazi crimes, ordered a state prosecutor to file suit for slander / against Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, for claiming that Waldheim had been "part and parcel" of the Nazi machine. Still awaiting final review of his case, although he was given the death penalty in absentia...
...Navy, however, has delayed bringing charges against two more Marines: Sergeant John Weirick, held on suspicion of espionage; and a former Moscow embassy guard who was returned to Quantico, Va., from his station in Brasilia. The fourth Marine and "several others" are still cooperating with probers. Nevertheless, one investigator concedes, "we're not finding quite the corroboration in Marine testimony that we expected...