Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stories were the same all along the frontier between the two armies. Only the name of the violator was changed, depending on which side was making the complaint. With only 41 U.N. observers on hand to patrol nearly 1,000 miles of contested border, it was impossible to tell who was the true aggressor. Clearly, both India and Pakistan had a lot to gain - and little to lose - by trying to grab more territory while they could. Old U.N. hands recalled that it took 123 days for the Suez cease fire to really take effect. The Indo-Pakistani cooling...
...Europe's already tight capital markets, some of their panicky aversion to takeovers by the great American giants has worn off in the past few months. A major reason is that the U.S.'s $132 million balance-of-payments surplus in the second quarter muted the old complaint that American businessmen were using their almighty dollars without restraint or discipline to buy up European industry.* There is also a growing awareness among Europeans that the U.S. stake is still relatively small, amounting to $11.5 billion, or less than 5% of total European investment...
Oddly enough, the President's almost unprecedented success with Congress deeply disturbs some observers. Republicans naturally echo House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's complaint that it has been "a weak, wet noodle" in Johnson's hands. Some independent critics object that important legislation has been rammed through almost without debate-though only a few years ago, when Congress was chronically deadlocked over vital bills, reformers argued that its machinery had become an unworkable anachronism...
...ponies and at craps to stay hopelessly in arrears on his rent and alimony payments. All of which should make him an empathic and irresistible anti-hero to all but a handful of complaining image makers from the American Bar Association. The latter have already issued a complaint...
...Attorney General Joe Patterson seems not to have been listening. Last week Patterson, who will be up for re-election in 1967, went right ahead with a last-ditch legal fight against the voting law that seemed to be more a campaign gesture than anything else. Filing bills of complaint in chancery courts of four Mississippi counties now under federal registration supervision, he asked for injunctions permitting local officials to reject any voters-federally registered or not-who did not comply with state registration laws. Those laws, which were overwhelmingly approved in a statewide referendum this summer (TIME...