Word: suspicions
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There follows the suspicion that making it is the only American morality. But no -- it can't be that simple. The first tangible hint of American moral attitudes comes on the immigration form: the solemn requirement to swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment...
...image. It is up to the operator of the X-ray machine to insist on opening a bag for closer inspection when a blank mass or an unusual image appears on the screen. Checked luggage is not routinely examined or X-rayed. When there is cause for suspicion, such as a discrepancy between the number of people who check in for a flight and the number who actually board, airlines may empty the plane and ask passengers to identify their bags. The object is to prevent terrorists from putting a bomb on the craft and then not boarding...
...have given him a chance to plant listening devices in the offices of defense contractors while pretending to protect them. One of his business associates, Laurie Robinson, said that Walker never gave her the slightest hint that he might be spying for the Soviets. She was apparently cleared of suspicion...
...latest revelations have cast a shadow of suspicion over the entire corporate community and are especially upsetting to the vast majority of businessmen who have spotless records and nothing to hide. "It's scary, isn't | it?" says David Ransburg, who owns a business in Peoria, Ill. "What I resent is that all of us who operate honestly and ethically get indicted in the broad sweep." Both businessmen and consumers are asking why the new outbreak of lawlessness is occurring, and the Reagan Administration is stepping up efforts to bring it under control. Says Stanton Wheeler, director of Yale University...
...continue to press its allies to bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...