Word: discontentment
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The noise will be loudest about Lebanon. O'Neill last week claimed that half of the 123 Democrats who voted in September to allow the Marines to stay in Lebanon for 18 months would now vote to bring them home. He predicted that a resolution to that effect would...
The discontent boiled over last May when the government tried to rotate southern army units to the north. The troops mutinied, charging that the move violated the 1972 accord. In crushing that uprising the government killed at least 70 mutineers. But the unrest continued. On Nov. 15, southern rebels kidnaped...
The absence of diplomatic niceties was appropriate. The letter, signed by Secretary of State George Shultz and authorized by President Reagan, held no surprises. After three years of discontent and six months of intensive review, the Administration last week formally withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO. Declared Gregory Newell, Assistant Secretary...
Some of his sharpest criticism was reserved for the shoddy consumer-goods industry. At a recent sales fair, Andropov said, officials had turned down 500,000 TV sets, 115,000 radios, 250,000 cameras, 1.5 million watches and clocks, and 160,000 refrigerators because they were of inferior quality. Such...
HALL FOR "INEFFICIENCY." Until this year, Hall's staff of associate directors had remained faithful. (Miller and Blakemore, who defected from the National in the mid-'70s, were both holdovers from the reign of Olivier, Hall's predecessor.) Then Pinter, whose plays Hall had been directing since...