Word: paranoia
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...manufactured at worst. Last month the State Department introduced to the world a young Nicaraguan--whom they claimed they had found fighting with the Salvadoran rebels--as proof of the Communist network. The hardened revolutionary turned out to be a student returning home to Nicaragua from Mexico City. The paranoia about Nicaragua, which keeps telling Washington it is a "poor country that does not represent a threat to the United States," would be comical if grown men in the Administration did not take matters so gravely...
...antidote to the disease consists of relieving the suspicion--indeed the paranoia--that exists between East and West. It is far from an easy task. The very existence of lethal and growing nuclear arsenals breeds this mutual fear. But there is hope: Short of disarmament, constructive steps can be taken to reduce the tension and give the Americans and Soviets a better understanding of one another...
...conservative Aspen businessman, blamed his cocaine habit on the morphine he was given during hospitalization for an accident. Eventually, he was doing a couple of grams a day and suffering from paranoia, roller-coaster mood swings and an inability to work. "I lived my whole life for cocaine," he recalls. Tom, too, went to the clinic and made a pact. A diehard Republican, he could think of no penance worse than forking over $1,000 to Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. A year ago he agreed that a check should be mailed if he resumed his habit. Ted Kennedy will have...
...overburdened investigators count primarily on fear to help bring about public compliance with the law. A few well-publicized tax prosecutions, especially around tax-filing time, undoubtedly bring in millions of dollars of additional revenue. IRS officials bluntly admit that they are trying to create an atmosphere of "paranoia" about taxes. Each criminal case is evaluated not only for the flagrancy of the violation but also for how much publicity the prosecution will create. Last year the agency reaped extensive press clippings for its case against former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, who was convicted of not declaring as income...
...that [purported Nicaraguan guerrilla in El Salvador] brought up to Washington is bound to affect the world's interpretation of this latest report." Concedes Leach: "The U.S. is not too credible any more in the eyes of some [foreign] governments. They think we suffer from an anti-Soviet paranoia...