Word: complains
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Some Finns complain that Kekkonen, unlike his predecessor J.K. Paasikivi, is unnecessarily obsequious to the Soviets. "Paasikivi waited for the Russians to ask," grumbles one of the President's critics. "Kekkonen goes to the Russians and offers." His reasons are all too obvious. Finland has a population of only 4,700,000 (v. the Soviet Union's 240 million) and shares 788 miles of its 1,583-mile frontier with the Soviet Union. The Finns have been at war with Russia, both under Sweden's suzerainty and on their own, for a total of 90 years...
...bargaining table seems only to have heightened construction labor's appetite for make-work arrangements. Detroit pipefitters require a "heat-patrol" 24 hours a day, seven days a week when temporary heat is used to permit cold-weather construction, even though the equipment is automatic. Pittsburgh contractors complain that cement finishers have reduced their daily output to 500 or 600 sq. ft. from 700 to 800 sq. ft. a few years ago. If St. Louis contractors use power or lights on a construction project, they must hire a union electrician merely to turn the switches...
...over the outcome. Last week Chairman Leonard Spacek of Arthur Andersen & Co. condemned the new pooling rule as "highly discriminatory and completely unacceptable." One effect of the furor is to raise questions about the whole practice of accounting. If accountants themselves disagree over proper ways to keep books, critics complain, how in the world can investors tell whether reported profits are real or illusory? In the financial community, earnings statements face a season of considerable scrutiny...
German officials complain that the problem is aggravated by the fact that allied embassies in Bonn-whose own security is not above suspicion-have access to a wide assortment of German documents. Novelist John le Carre, who served in the British embassy in 1962-64, drew upon his knowledge of Bonn's spies and intrigues to write A Small Town in Germany. But clearly the leading factor is the huge number of spies lured by an availability of secrets there and ease of access from East to West Germany. The Interior Ministry recently offered amnesty to an estimated...
...last year at the industrial city of Cordoba in which 22 persons were killed, Ongania's power began to crumble. While the country was beset by a wave of crime and violence and a gradual return of inflation, Ongania's only prescription was to tighten censorship and complain that Argentines suffered from "an excess of freedom." The final blow may well have been the loss of prestige that Ongania suffered by the kidnaping two weeks ago of a former President, Lieut. General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, who ruled the country for 2½ years following Peron's ouster...