Word: complained
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...Mohammed Mahgoub in 1969, Nimeiri negotiated an end to 17 years of bloody civil war in 1972. Nimeiri has remained in power since then, staging three referendums that have overwhelmingly returned him to office. Residents of the southern part of the country, however, cite numerous grievances. They complain, for example, that when the Chevron Oil Co. discovered oil in the south, the government made plans to pipe it out of the territory rather than build a refinery on the spot, which would have generated jobs in the economically depressed region. In addition, some southerners fear that the Jonglei Canal...
Washington officials say that the Salvadorans "got the message" and complain that congressional efforts to force El Salvador to be certified every six months are self-defeating. Says Thomas R. Pickering, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador: "For the first time we believe the government has responded to the call of treating right-wing extremist violence with the same degree of interest and activity and will as they have dealt with left-wing extremist violence." Last week Major José Ricardo Pozo and Lieut. Colonel Aristedes Alfonso Márquez, two senior intelligence officers with links to the death squads, were...
...been considerably more at issue than the cost of bread-though rises in food prices have sparked riots in many countries. Despite Tunisia's relatively prosperous face, it is still a country where the rich get richer. In the south, where the rioting began, peasants, mineworkers and laborers complain bitterly of their economic deprivation, compared with the higher standard of living in the more heavily industrialized north...
...service for the first time in half a century. Until now, long-distance rates were artificially high and helped subsidize local service. Documenting the need for rate increases is a laborious, painstaking procedure requiring the talents of scores of people. But officials at the New York public service commission complain that it has been extraordinarily difficult to communicate with rate people at New York Telephone and that this has hampered the company's proposed $775 million rate increase. The commission may challenge almost all of the rate request, in part because of questions about claimed divestiture costs. William Burns...
...Egyptian President had agreed to take in some P.L.O. fighters. How many of Arafat's men might be stationed in Egypt was uncertain, and skeptical U.S. State Department officials said they knew of nothing resembling such an arrangement. If the report is correct, however, Jerusalem is certain to complain loudly that offering refuge to the P.L.O. would violate the spirit of the 1978 Camp David accords...