Word: suspicions
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...here." He believes that the headquarters is in Iran and that most of the funding comes from Arab states in the Middle East. Bruce Hoffman, the Rand Corp.'s terrorism expert, says, "I'd look to Tehran or Damascus as the control center." As to financing, Hoffman adds, "My suspicion is that the money Hamas is getting from Iran, and perhaps Syria as well, dwarfs anything they are raising...
Alerted to the incident, the FBI investigated but found no wrongdoing. Justice officials claim that the documents were merely duplicates of classified material. But the outcry over the shredding is illustrative of the intrigue and suspicion that currently consume the Justice Department. In recent years the agency has been rife with controversy over allegedly lax investigations, secret political motives, cover-ups and general malfeasance. Under Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the Justice Department gained a reputation, among Republicans and Democrats alike, as the most thoroughly politicized and ethically compromised department in the government...
...SPILL COULD BE A FLUKE. TWO SPILLS, and suspicion rises. Three in a row looks like a dangerous trend. So in the wake of the disastrous trio of tanker accidents off the coasts of Spain, Scotland and Sumatra, E.C. ministers convened an emergency meeting in Brussels. The officials proposed policies to ensure that companies spilling oil pay for the damage, and also agreed on the need to declare environmentally sensitive areas off limits to tankers...
...MOST UNSEASONAL ACT. DAYS BEFORE Christmas and with immediate effect, President F.W. De Klerk suspended or retired 23 of South Africa's top officers, including two generals and four brigadiers. All are under suspicion of clandestine activities -- some involving hit-squad murders -- designed to undermine his political reforms. De Klerk dismissed talk of an attempted military coup, saying there was no threat to South Africa's security. But criminal charges could follow next year. "We're not dealing with kids," he said...
Many Democrats, however, voiced suspicion of Bentsen's enthusiasm for granting special tax breaks to oilmen, real estate developers and wealthy investors. Jeff Faux, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank allied with organized labor, complained that "you don't want to run your economic policy entirely around the concerns of Wall Street investors." Elena Hanggi from Little Rock, who trains community organizers and is invited to Clinton's economic conference this week, expressed "disappointment" at the pro-business slant of his top economic advisers but remains cautiously optimistic. In Washington as in Arkansas, she said, "Bill...