Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the rhetoric subsided, a senior Administration official who was on the trip disclosed that the Chinese had been informed in advance that Fang would be invited to the banquet. Beijing expressed its disapproval to the U.S. embassy, which passed on the complaint to Washington, but somehow the message never reached the highest levels at the White House. "The communication in Washington," the official observed wryly, "is less than perfect." Whether the Administration would have removed Fang from the list in any event is another question. Says a U.S. official: "You cannot get into a bargaining situation over a guest...
...horror of kidney sales, in short, is a sentimental reaction to the injustice of life -- injustice that the transaction highlights but does not increase. This is not a complaint. In fact, it may even be the best reason for a ban on such transactions. That kind of sentiment ought to be encouraged...
Jewett's decision and proposal answers all but the final complaint...
...events in several regions. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's trip to the Middle East last week was part of a skillful diplomatic campaign aimed at giving Moscow a major voice in the region. In Panama, General Fred Woerner, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, issued an uncharacteristically public complaint that Washington has no real policy toward that country. In Asia, the focus of Bush's efforts last week, China and Viet Nam are negotiating a settlement in Kampuchea with almost no input from Washington. In Western Europe, allies beguiled by Mikhail Gorbachev's promise to reduce Soviet conventional forces...
...time of the kiss-in, members of Defeat Homophobia said that they were pleased that a student was finally willing to come forward with a complaint. They said they had difficulty in the past, because although there had been several incidents of sex-orientation harassment at Harvard, few students were willing to make their complaints public...