Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duarte is still viewed with suspicion by some within the military. Besides those officers upset by his peace initiatives, a handful of others resent his successful effort to reduce the number of assassinations carried out by right- wing death squads, some of which are part of the military's intelligence service. Duarte has reason to mistrust the military. Several officers have been implicated in kidnapings of wealthy Salvadorans, crimes that were blamed on the guerrillas. One is under house arrest, but another, Lieut. Colonel Roberto Mauricio Staben, still holds an important field command...
...Italy, newspapers printed accounts of heavy arms shipments to Iran, prompting questions in Parliament as to why the government had failed to enforce its embargo on such sales. Though the squabble was primarily domestic -- most of the weapons were supposedly sold by Italian arms merchants -- the U.S. came under suspicion too. Rino Formica, Minister of Foreign Trade, grumbled in a newspaper interview that "when one talks of arms sales, one needs also to mention the NATO bases in Italy. We can't control the arms that enter our country directly from these bases. We aren't informed . . . And therefore...
...National Gallery of Art in Washington has filled it, persuasively, radiantly and definitively, with a show of 171 paintings done by Matisse in his early Nice years, assembled by Art Historians Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade. It should dispel any lingering suspicion that between 1916 and 1930, even average Matisses got as complacent as most Renoirs. Indeed, some of Matisse's greatest work was done in those years. Why was this acknowledged so grudgingly, or not at all? For "ideological reasons," Co-Curator Fourcade argues, springing from a "modernist obsession" with Matisse's largely posthumous role as prophet of Paris...
...Soviet land forces, which has been going on gradually for 20 years, is quickening. Some 550,000 Soviet troops now line the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Moreover, some 147 SS-20 missiles are deployed in the Soviet Far East, each carrying three warheads. Peking's suspicion of Moscow is heightened by the growing Soviet naval presence off China's coast, underscored by Moscow's apparent success in persuading North Korea to grant access to the ports of Wonsan and Nampo and overflight rights that permit reconnaissance missions along China's coast...
...ordinance passed last year in San Fransisco prohibits random urine-testing except when an employer has reasonable suspicion that a specific individual is a substance abuser who also threatens the safety of his co-workers. That's a fair law, because its writers understood that those who have nothing to hide because they have nothing to fear lack also one other thing. Even if they're candidates for public office, they also have nothing to prove...