Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major plague. Still, one begins to detect a plague mentality regarding the disease and those who carry it. Paradoxically, homosexuals are both victims of the plague mentality and themselves perpetrators of it. Because 73% of those who have AIDS are homosexuals, the general populace tends to look with suspicion on all homosexuals. Because the virus is transmitted by homosexual intercourse, homosexuals themselves bring to their intimate lives a desperate wariness and paranoia...
...after Tiedge turned up in East Germany, West German authorities arrested Margarete Hoke, 50, a secretary for the past 21 years in the office of the Federal President, on suspicion of spying for East Germany. Officials said that Hoke had first met an East German agent named Franz Becker in 1968 and had recently been spotted making contact with him in Copenhagen. A few days after Hoke was picked up, Swiss authorities in Lucerne arrested an East German couple, Johann and Ingeborg Hubner, who were believed to be linked to Hoke...
Another installment in the continuing drama came when Reinhard Liebetanz, 48, an associate of Tiedge's who heads the counterespionage unit against right- wing radicals, was detained on suspicion of supplying information to a friend who was identified as an East German agent. Officials said that Liebetanz had become friendly with a man named Eberhard Severin, 50, whom he first met in 1974. While vacationing last month at Austria's Neusiedler Lake, Liebetanz said, Severin tried to recruit him as a spy for East Germany. Fearing he might be kidnaped, Liebetanz went to Austrian police, who held him until West...
Alasdair Milne, the BBC's director general, called the disclosures "greatly overdramatized." But BBC journalists fear that any link with MI5 could feed suspicion that the corporation is a government front...
Such success in the Ivies--in which chemistry labs often take place before practice laps--breeds suspicion, and concern that the scholar-athlete ideal is slipping. Harvard is no exception...