Word: trusts
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...freedom to choose one's country of residence has become a touchstone for the entire process of détente. Therefore I trust that the defense of that freedom will become a leitmotiv of the European Security Conference. It is being decided right now whether détente is to be a comprehensive, profound process of historic significance involving the democratization and opening up of Soviet society, or whether it is to be a cynical political game serving only the short-term political and economic interests of some individuals, a plot behind the backs of the people at large...
There can be no doubt that the popular trust of presidential incumbents has decreased with the multiplicity of the demands made upon them. When George Washington was in office, he was very conscious of the danger of a collapse of confidence if he allowed too much to be expected of him. Unlike modern Presidents, he never tried to whip Congressmen into line. He accepted their separate function as one of the facts with which he had to cope...
...week's end, grizzled Veteran Schorr, 58, thought his exposé was looking "awful." But he insists he had reason to trust Prouty because the colonel had earlier given him a rock-hard exclusive on his role in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Still, Schorr concedes that he never took the time to check the Butterfield allegation with the two Air Force officers who Prouty claims gave him the information, or try very hard to reach Butterfield himself. Nevertheless, Schorr says, "I still think my only alternative was to go. We're in a strange business here...
...pounds heavier. That summer I sat out in Bridgehampton, watching the hearings and thinking, 'God, truth! Would I like to see some truth in life. I would like to see some truth on the stage.' I wanted to believe in our country as a place where people trust again, and in a strange way I didn't want to judge people any more. The goal-success orientation of our country had made this happen...
...running big budget surpluses, the Treasury can create enough funds to finance a fat list of investments, including the building of a needed 25 million new homes by 1985. But can it? The idea that Government can overcome political pressures for heavy spending and run huge surpluses, argues U.S. Trust Vice Chairman James O'Leary, is "a lot of nonsense...