Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racist action, his officers are expected to act "professionally" at all times. In an instance last November, one of three which recently have provoked charges of racism, Harvard police stopped a Black student on the street, treated him roughly and neglected to apologize after the student was cleared of suspicion...
...Senate investigation left a permanent legacy of bitterness. Some Senators felt that Casey had misled them about his finances, and looked with increased suspicion on his running of covert operations. Casey felt that some lawmakers were conducting a vendetta against him and was strengthened in his natural tendency to tell them no more than the law requires. Says one official who worked closely with Casey during that period: "Casey gets mad, and he also tries to get even. The attacks from the Hill just compounded an existing disdain for the legislative branch of Government...
This alone, however, will not be enough to handle the far more serious underlying problem. No oversight arrangement will work, nor will any program to rebuild America's covert capabilities work, until a way can be found to dissipate the corrosive mistrust and suspicion that has built up between Casey's CIA and Congress...
...army of waging a campaign of terror in parts of Matabeleland province, into which government troops had been sent in January to flush out antigovernment rebels. The bishops charged that physical brutality was commonplace against the area's 450,000 inhabitants. "People are beaten up on the mere suspicion that they are helping dissidents or when they say they do not know anything about dissidents," said the report. It charged that army commanders had adopted a "policy of starvation," telling villagers that they "would first have to eat their chickens, then their goats, then their cattle and then their...
...infatuated with aggressive investigation, so sure that a scandal lurked behind every closed door, that eventually a disdainful public began to comment on the "post-Watergate syndrome." Nowhere did the syndrome take hold more than at the Post itself, and nowhere does it hold more sway. A tone of suspicion, often anger, pervades many news stories. Some political pieces sound more like editorials: a reporter's interpretive rebuttal often appears higher in the story than the official statement he or she is rebutting, especially in stories about the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America. The Post...