Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...periods. Last December, Cambodia's United Nations Ambassador, Huot Sampoth, appealed for an end to "this war of extermination" in which, he said, more than 300 Cambodians had been killed and 700 wounded by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. There was little, however, that Cambodia could do except complain: its scantily equipped 40,000-man armed forces could not adequately patrol Cambodia's ill-defined, 575-mile frontier with Viet Nam. A typical technique was to send a single Cambodian trooper, mounted on a motorcycle, to the site of a border violation. The soldier would race...
...anti-Communist camps, Sihanouk has long antagonized cold warriors on both sides. One day he may remark that "Communism is inevitable in Asia. When? Oh, not tomorrow. The Chinese don't think in years, not even in lustrums. They have time with them." The next day he may complain that Chinese children in Cambodia's schools "bring in Mao Tse-tung's books and carry out all types of subversive activities...
When Carswell's critics complain that he is judicially incompetent, they are really making two charges. Even more than Clement Haynsworth, they feel Carswell lacks the political acumen to cope wisely with the issues of a combustible era - in particular racial discrimination. And unlike Haynsworth, they regard Carswell as deficient in basic legal skills. When Carswell boasts that he never accepted a fee while on the bench, they reply: "Who on earth would...
...cannot help wishing, though, that de Antonio would provide more help than he does in explaining McCarthy. Others have attempted to do this-as the rash of books on the campaign will attest-but most either make no attempt to be critical or, like Jeremy Larner's Nobody Knows, complain that McCarthy was not an entirely different person than he really...
Some of the houses deserve to be junked, but the abandonment of others is a loss to the community because they could be salvaged. Cities complain that they lack the resources to cope with the problem. Frank S. Kristof, director of the housing-programs division for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, argues that a huge infusion of federal funds is needed, both to rehabilitate the houses and to maintain them. Any such federal program would have to be directed at whole neighborhoods. Instead of building new subsidized public housing -which often "locks people into the cities," as Kristof...