Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what does the act mean for the stability of Egypt? As in a mystery novel in which hardly a character is free of suspicion, Sadat had so many enemies that almost no political or religious group can be completely ruled out. He was despised as a traitor by Arab nationalist radicals at home as well as those in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. He was hated by Islamic fundamentalists both inside and outside Egypt, and their numbers, like their fervor, are on the increase. He was at odds with some of his country's Coptic Christians. He had quarreled...
...report was released just three days before President Reagan announced his decisions on the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. Naturally, there was suspicion that the timing was designed to help the Pentagon justify the vast sums needed for the new strategic systems. Weinberger flatly denied the charge. Plans for the booklet, he said, began last April after the U.S. presentation of a top-secret "threat assessment" of Soviet military strength to NATO defense ministers in Bonn. The ministers were sufficiently impressed to urge Weinberger to make the study public so they could use it to defuse opposition...
...Suspicion of impending doom because of the elimination of species stems from the Ehrlichs' first and constantly invoked example, which, sad to say, is laughable. "Imagine that, just before you are about to board a jet plane, you see a man busily prying rivets out of its wings. As you rush in a panic back down the gangplank, he calls out, "Don't worry, I've taken a lot of rivets out already and the wing hasn't fallen off yet!" This scenario is supposed to be analagous to losing a few more species: One more might not matter...
During the early days of the committee, "we were always under suspicion of the police," he said, adding, however, that "what we were doing was completely legal, and we notified the authorities about everything we did, so what the police were doing was basically harrassment...
...with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed out at Doe's decision to close the Libyan embassy when it renamed itself a "people's bureau" without Liberian authorization, and to expel nine of the 15 Soviet diplomats stationed in Monrovia on suspicion of spying...