Word: suspicions
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...necessary to build up our military defenses. In addition to their aggressive policy of wanting to spread their doctrine throughout the world, there is a great fear on their part that they must be constantly on guard and defensive. This was characteristic of Russia before it was Communist, a suspicion of neighbors. Maybe it goes back to Napoleon's march on Moscow, maybe it goes back to other things of that kind...
High-level dialogue between leaders of the U.S.S.R. and those of the West, in particular the U.S., is badly needed at this time. Such dialogue is indispensable if we are to prevent misunderstandings over areas of tension leading to dangerous confrontations. Mistrust and suspicion have bred a vicious cycle that has to be stopped. Let us try to break out of it by making the most of all the good will that exists and of every initiative. France will not be last in this. What we can do, we will do without ever losing sight of the fact that overtures...
...dispute over Grenada seemed to uncork a pent-up public hostility. It reinforced a perception that journalists regard themselves as utterly detached from, and perhaps even hostile to, the Government of their country. Another factor in provoking distrust is the suspicion that journalists care little about accuracy. When the Washington Post, New York Times and New York Daily News all discovered, during 1981 arid 1982, that they had printed stories that reporters had embellished or invented, much of the public took these extreme cases as typical of journalism and expressed delight that major news organizations had been humiliated...
...During one of Harry's visits home, the teenage daughter is wondering whether to take carpentry or ballet as a school elective. Her mother is all for woodwork as opposed to Harry, who advocates that "any girl with swell legs should take ballet." One is left with the lingering suspicion that May could only have married Harry to provide the book with an unsavory male presence and the kids with an unsuitable role model. Aside from Quayle, the story contains only meetings with abridgeable--and abridged--men, in contrast to the subtlety with which some of the women are sketched...
Oddly, despite the signals pointing to a diminution of the U.S. role, suspicion is also growing that the Administration may in fact be pondering direct military intervention in Nicaragua. Washington corridors are filled with talk of a plan for a U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua some time in 1984. One supposed invasion scheme, reportedly code-named "Pegasus," is said to call for U.S. air and sea support for an attack by the Hondurans, the contras and possibly other Central American nations...