Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maximum security prison of Irani in southern Italy, 70 inmates held on suspicion of terrorism had risen up in rebellion, seized 18 guards as hostages and taken over a prison wing. Their sweeping demands for exchange of the hostages included the closing of all nine of the country's maximum security prisons and the abolition of new antiterrorist laws. The demands were not met. Instead, one afternoon last week two helicopters loaded with specially trained troopers landed on the prison roof at the same instant that a squad of carabinieri on the ground blew open the prison doors...
This study is the first to "confirm the suspicion that diet can contribrute to changes in the blood cholesterol levels," Paul said yesterday. Researchers have said for a decade that high blood cholesterol levels contribute to heartdisease...
...instituted the two-days-in-one work routine, claiming prodigious achievements that began at 10 a.m. and ran until 4 p.m., then a two-hour nap, followed by work from 6 p.m. to midnight or so. Secretaries and assorted aides came in two shifts. There is the faint suspicion that if Johnson had throttled back a bit, we would be in less trouble today...
...There was a rapid legal examination. In two minutes, inspectors aided by interpreters fired 29 questions at a newcomer. Among them: "Are you an anarchist?" And the trick question: "Do you have a job?" A few proud would-be citizens could truthfully answer "Yes." But a yes answer raised suspicion that the newcomer was a strikebreaker-or had been conned into a slave-labor agreement...
...wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered a wing and dropped in flames to the street. All aboard were killed. Sá Carneiro's own Social Democratic Party was quick to dismiss any suspicion of sabotage. Airport employees reported that the Cessna was in such poor condition that mechanics had to help start the engines...