Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What especially troubles the legislators is the belief that until the culprits, if any, are named or the whispers proved false, almost every Congressman faces public suspicion and ridicule. Says Massachussetts Democrat James Shannon: "Everyone thinks there is a cloud over his head...
From the beginning, the Soviets have moved with extreme caution in Iran. They ordered the local Tudeh (Communist) Party to infiltrate organizations of clerical power but to avoid any actions that could arouse official suspicion. Meanwhile, Moscow provided Iran with increasing amounts of military and economic aid, though always by proxy. Indeed, to hedge their bets, the Soviets continued giving token support to Iraq, with which they have had a friendship treaty since 1960 and whose army they have largely supplied...
...others. Richard Nixon's government melded men from both coasts, but his White House staff had a heavy dose of those too eager sunshine boys from Southern California whose fraternity tricks helped produce Watergate. The memories of Jimmy Carter's Georgia Mafia are mercifully fading, but their suspicion and their resentment of the rituals of real power surely hastened his failure...
...President sought to balance his speech by declaring that for all their suspicion of the Soviets, "Americans yearn to let go" of their arms and are entering negotiations "bearing honest proposals." Still, the speech differed strikingly in tone from some of those that Reagan gave in Europe, notably one in Bonn during which he told antinuclear marchers that "my heart is with you." Nor was there any question who had decided on the switch. The President not only dictated the tone but personally wrote some of the more striking sections, including the "paper castle" passage, during a weekend at Camp...
...ranging U.S. agenda toward that purpose. The President's close friend Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt says that Reagan has shown a messianic zeal on the subject since the attempt on his life in March 1981. At the same time, aides note, the President has never wavered in his suspicion of Soviet intentions, nor in his belief that only a stern policy and a rapid American military buildup can induce the U.S.S.R. to negotiate seriously on arms control. As he put it to the U.N., "We refuse to become weaker while potential adversaries remain committed to their imperialist adventures." Having...