Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scenes that were part of an otherworldly mixture of triumph and fear, suspicion and hope: peasants making the V-for-victory sign outside empty shops or beside wells said to have been poisoned by the Securitate. No one confident that those brutal defenders of the old regime were really gone; no one certain what kind of a government was in charge. People ricocheting between agony and elation. And fear everywhere...
...informed the county sheriff's office. Supplied by an investigator with recording equipment, the neighbors proceeded to tape more than 20 cassettes of Tyler's phone conversations over the next few months. Although they never turned up a shred of evidence about drug sales, the tapes did help raise suspicion about some illegal personal business dealings...
...collaborators -- in a population of 23 million -- clandestinely monitored mail and telephone conversations, analyzed handwriting samples to track down the sources of dissident material, tailed foreigners and spied on citizens in every apartment block, village and factory. Their ubiquitous presence helps explain the deep vein of distrust and suspicion pervading Rumanian society. The Securitate further functioned as the national intelligence service...