Word: suspicions
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...Pope John Paul II touched down in Costa Rica last week, attention in Rome was distracted by new developments related to one of the darkest hours of the Pontiffs reign. Ever since the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, suspicion has grown that the convicted Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, took his orders from Bulgarian agents, who in turn might have been acting with the knowledge of the Soviet Union. To date, Italian investigators have arrested one Bulgarian official in Rome for alleged complicity in the plot, and accused two others. Now Italian officials have begun examining...
Martella passed on his suspicion that Scricciolo was also implicated in the Walesa plot to the magistrate in charge of the Scricciolo investigation, Judge Ferdinando Imposimato. After questioning Agca, he has now pieced together the details of the alleged plot to kill Walesa. In addition to naming Agca and the three Bulgarian officials implicated in the papal shooting, Imposimato issued official warnings last week to Scricciolo, Ivan Donchev, a former second secretary at the Bulgarian embassy who is now in Sofia, and Salvatore Scordo, a former union employee in the same union as Scricciolo. The seven alleged conspirators reportedly concluded...
...Without wishing to open a Pandora's Box by discussing the question of Southern identity in the late 20th century, one should note that in that phraseology lies the whole problem confronting a Southern candidate for the Presidency: a lingering sense of Southern separateness combines with an equally lingering suspicion, hostility, even prejudice against the South. The Jimmy Carter saga only heightened these tensions...
...part a mandate to restore America's military might. The ensuing debate has been over the size of the much needed buildup: whether military spending should rise by 7% after inflation, as Reagan proposes, or closer to 5%, as President Carter and others have urged. Now the spreading suspicion that billions are being wasted is chipping away at that consensus. Most of the attention has thus far been focused on apocalyptic strategic issues: How can we best deter or fight an all-out nuclear war? Should we deploy new MX missiles in the U.S. and Pershing II missiles...
...several delicate issues to contend with. For example, their proposal had to assure black Presbyterians that they would not be hurt by the merger. Racial tensions underlay the historic split, and the reunion would have been seriously flawed if blacks protested the agreement. Despite decades of separation and suspicion, says Taylor, "the amazing thing is that black Presbyterians are saying, 'We're going to trust you one more time.' " Another key issue was the policy of the Northern church requiring local congregations to elect women as lay elders. When adopted by U.P.C.U.S.A. in 1979, the rule...