Word: paranoia
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...office is guarded by a maximum-security chain-link fence suggesting a concentration camp; sheaves of yellowing files conjure up a strangulating bureaucratic maze. Roote (George Martin), the government official in command, is a slightly dotty ex-colonel given to gung-ho sloganizing, lapses of memory and bouts of paranoia. His second in command, Gibbs (Richard Kavanaugh), lusts for Roote's post, is as obsequiously duplicitous as lago and possesses the mental cast of a Nazi stormtrooper. Miss Cutts (Amy Van Nostrand), the head nurse, is one of Pinter's Venus's-flytraps. She is Roote...
...only the naive. By not discouraging the training of counter revolutionaries on American soil, the Administration has done little to assuage Nicaraguan fears of a U.S. sponsored invasion. Events like the Bay of Pigs remain fresh enough in South American minds to arouse what we must hope is unjustified paranoia. Until the U.S. ceases its open hostility the Nicaraguans will likely continue to buy arms--taking needed resources away from other parts of a troubled economy and fueling what has become a diplomatic vicious circle...
...meeting the ransom demand will mean closing his factory, he begins to believe that everyone around him - his son's girlfriend (the darkly sensual Laura Morante), a radical worker-priest (Victor Cavallo), maybe even Primo's patrician wife (Anouk Aimee) - is involved in the abduction. Conspiracy or paranoia? Primo says: "I prefer not to know." And the film takes no sides, instead allowing both protagonist and moviegoer to entertain each terrible possibility...
...when it is used for civilian programs). Furthermore, if this same billion were released through tax cuts. 112.000 jobs would be created. Above all, we will enhance the Security of the free world, not by using the self-defeating method of an interminable escalation of armaments which only intensified paranoia, but by employing the very resources which had hitherto created bombs, towards the creation of a concord of fundamental arms. The key aims will be design and build conditions in which democracy can bloom. When there is such overwhelming agreement on strategy tactics, the raison d' etre of our stockpiles...
...felt, as an aide put it, that he had "a reasonable shot" at succeeding. Haig saw last week's trip as a chance to prepare the groundwork for serious bargaining by immersing himself for the first time in the complex mixture of history, prejudice, aspirations and paranoia that governs Middle Eastern diplomacy...