Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andrei Sakharov). What Rubenstein reveals is that in the Soviet Union, abuses of human rights are not isolated incidents. There are day-to-day harassment, searches, interrogations, interference with phones, psychological confinement, separation of families, inhuman treatment of prisoners. Often the regime is purposely inconsistent creating an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia as the KGB arrests those not directly involved the movement as well as the leaders to keep all off balance...
...encouraged to see in your story about designing a new keyboard [Jan. 26] that at last there may be a typewriter that makes sense. I have always had a sneaking suspicion that the inventor of the QWERTY system had a good laugh at the prank he perpetrated on the world...
...impressive chorus of discontent will probably inspire the appointment of study commissions and the production of all kinds of reports, analyses and perhaps even proposals for change. But what action is apt to occur? Is any important rearrangement of the powers of federal and state governments likely? The prevailing suspicion is voiced by Michigan's Republican Lieutenant Governor James Brickley: not confident that anything substantial can be done...
This expression can be used to implement better University policies only if Harvard means what it says about its commitment to improve the racial situation on campus. The University, however, remains suspicious of any movement or group that faintly hints at separatism. The Foundation proposal seeks to counter this suspicion by maintaining its position as an organization to promote racial and cultural interaction. But this effort dooms itself if a straightforward expression of the political problems that Black students face on this campus are excluded from the Foundation's goals. When we don't speak out--loud and clear...
Indeed the mudslinging may have already begun. Labor Secretary-General Haim Bar-Lev was the subject of a barrage of bizarre rumors telephoned into Israel's daily newspapers by anonymous callers. They said that he had been arrested by Israeli security forces on suspicion of spying for the Soviet Union. Bar-Lev scornfully denied the rumors and came close to openly accusing the Likud of starting them. "Half of the opposition people have already been labeled [by Likud] as traitors," scoffed Bar-Lev. "The Likud people are fighting for their political lives...