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First came the squabbling over reciprocal sites. The Soviets initially balked when the U.S. offered a location on Washington's Mount Alto, ! complaining it was too far from the center of town. The U.S. had a similar gripe about the Soviets' suggested American embassy site high atop the Lenin Hills. By the end of the decade, however, the Soviets had accepted Mount Alto; the high ground may have been far from the action, but it did offer an ideal location for eavesdropping equipment. Meanwhile, the U.S. agreed to build in that soggy spot near the Moscow River, primarily because...
...heart of the military complaints is a sense that Aquino will bend more easily to meet the needs of the Communist guerrillas than she will to maintain the loyalty of her troops. It is now common to hear soldiers gripe that the Communist insurgents have got a "free ride" in the media since the cease-fire began last December. Another standard beef: guerrillas are not held accountable for human-rights abuses, but soldiers are. Asks one soldier: "If Aquino can be soft on the ((Communist)) rebels and offer them amnesty, why can't she treat the rebel soldiers...
After finishing Mr. Smith's editorial, I was quite prepared to read some provocative commentary. Unfortunately, I started John Rosenthal's "The T.P. Squeeze." Has Reading Period been so taxing on Mr. Rosenthal's mind that the only topic he could write about was to gripe about Harvard's toilet paper? Surely there are better subjects for Mr. Rosenthal to write on. He, at least, could have addressed the real problem with the toilet paper--its extreme coarseness--rather than relating his little experiences with the various toilet paper holders...
Disregarding her leader's warning and following up on her earlier gripe, Delegate Lakhdhir moves that the council apologize in The Independent for the forum advertisement...
Ironically, Heimert has a gripe about SASC, and when he discusses the activists he becomes very adamant. He claims that members acted "unethically" in not identifying themselves when they called him for information about the program. And he says they illegally photocopied a report by a student who worked at a South African private school available in the Eliot House library. "I thought it was illegal to take reserve material out of library," Heimert says of the activists' actions...