Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When last week's executive order was finally hammered out, Admiral Turner, perhaps only half in jest, threw up his arms, sighed and told Brzezinski: "They call me the intelligence czar, but you're the boss." The admiral had a point, but then he has nothing to complain about from the reshuffle. For the first time, one man has been told to take charge of the nine all too often freewheeling, intensely competitive and sometimes overlapping intelligence agencies...
White House officials complain, perhaps excessively, that the agency has failed to give them advance warning of crucial developments. Why, they ask, was the CIA not better informed about the reaction Vance would receive when he took his SALT proposals to Moscow last March. Common sense, however, might have indicated that the Secretary would run into trouble because the proposals were too sweeping to be acceptable to the Soviets. The White House felt that the CIA should have had some inkling of Sadat's decision to go to Israel; yet U.S. intelligence had warned that Sadat was frustrated and looking...
...Russians pick up microwave transmissions from telephones, radios and satellites. Last year they installed huge eavesdropping antennas near Havana to intercept messages sent from the U.S. overseas. At KGB headquarters in Moscow, 30,000 workers specialize in computer analysis of miles of taped transmissions. The U.S. can scarcely complain; some 4,000 Americans employed by the National Security Agency, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and secret private contractors are doing exactly the same thing. Both Soviet and American technicians use advanced computers programmed to react to trigger words; a Soviet analyst, for instance, might sit up straight on coming upon words...
...could also complain about Wert muller's routine storytelling gaffes, but perhaps the movie's most notable irritant is the endless rain. Apparently the rain, like the director's familiar holocaust images over the opening credits, is meant to remind us that we are watching the end of the world. What we see, however, is not the apocalypse but the desperation of a film maker...
...action. The President had long ago scooped his own news by disclosing his major legislative plans for the coming year. Nor were there any eloquent phrases; that is simply not his style. Conservatives could grumble about his revived talk of creating "voluntary" restraints on wages and prices. Liberals could complain that many of his populist campaign calls for aiding the poor and rebuilding the cities had apparently vanished...