Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world is as important as that between the President of the United States and the man who leads the Soviet Union. They grope for an understanding of each other through 4,800 miles of political static, at once drawn together by necessity and fascination and held apart by cultural suspicion and government bureaucracy. Their personalities become summaries of nations too vast and complex to understand in the whole...
...airport to greet Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq last week, the occasion was momentous. Since the partitioning of Pakistan from India 35 years ago, relations between the Asian subcontinent's two major powers have been soured by three wars, border clashes and a legacy of bitterness and suspicion. Remarked a senior Indian official: "This is a historic moment...
Senator John Chafee, running for his Republican life in Rhode Island, last week got up the nerve to indulge a growing political suspicion. To raise funds, he held a nonevent. For $25 a supporter could stay home. For $35 he or she received an autographed copy of the speech Chafee did not deliver. For $40 the contributor was excused from reading it. The hopeless political junkie with $75 to give was invited to a chicken dinner - in his own home, the chicken sent in from Colonel Sanders'. For $150 the Senator and his wife dined with the donors...
...gift freezer that was linked to an alleged influence-peddling scandal. Neither issue did her much harm. During a Senate probe of the Democratic freezer flap, the highly partisan Republican Joseph R. McCarthy called her one of the "finest things about the White House" and declared her above suspicion...
...country whose population is about 65% Palestinian. On the other was Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who had just been driven out of Lebanon along with thousands of his guerrillas after a ten-week Israeli siege of their West Beirut stronghold. Bitterness and mutual suspicion had often divided the two men since Hussein's violent expulsion of P.L.O. guerrillas from Jordan in 1970. But a dramatic new set of circumstances brought them together in Amman last week for four days of private talks and lavish banquets that Arafat described as a "significant and destiny-shaping" event...