Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generally free and fair." The current U.S. ambassador, former CIA Official James R. Lilley, testified at his Senate confirmation that he regarded South Korea's national security as more important than democratic reforms. The Reagan Administration, its critics say, urges Chun to move toward democracy but fails to complain when he refuses to budge. Said a student in Seoul: "If America does not change its attitude, the anti-Americanism here will grow...
...however, gave a more disturbing assessment, calling the threat of some Iranian response "quite high." This prompted House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin to complain that the Administration clearly had not figured out what it was getting into. There are suspicions that Iran has set up mines in the waters of Kuwait's primary oil port at Al-Ahmadi. Should a ship hit one of them, said Aspin, it would be "something on which there are no Iranian fingerprints." Thus the U.S. would be less able to retaliate. Another threat is the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles that Iran...
...United States will not be run out of the region. But they then set conditions for U.S. action in the gulf that are impossible to meet. The favored technique for doing this is to demand that the United States not act alone. Where are the allies? they complain. After all, it is their oil and not ours that is flowing through the gulf. They should join us in any military action. If they don't act, why should...
...critics who complain that the hearings have needlessly weakened Reagan, Maine's Democratic Senator George Mitchell noted that it was the President "who asked the Congress to create a committee to explore these situations to get the truth to the American people." As last week's testimony demonstrated, the historic hearings have responded to that challenge. And it is only half time in the still unfolding drama that seems to have no heroes, only shredded policies and arrogant attitudes...
...mayor, Orville Bergh, Daryl's father, came in and took no credit, saying, "They got all this organized while I was up in Milwaukee. Not bad for a little jerkwater town like this." Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing...