Word: ineptness
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Nixon would raise Latin America to top priority. Our policy there since World War II, he writes, "has been inadequate, inept, and worst of all plagued by fitful starts and stop." In Central America, he believes, "while our current policy is not an ideal one, it is the least we can do under the circumstances...
Pinochet no doubt wishes that the widespread opposition to his ten-year reign could be obliterated. Instead, the movement has been steadily gaining in strength, fueled by the government's inept management of the economy (15% inflation, 34.6% unemployment) and its indifference to civil and human rights. Especially troubling to Pinochet is the growing cohesiveness of the Democratic Alliance, a loose federation of the nation's five major opposition parties. The most recent demonstration was part of a protest organized by the Democratic Alliance to mark the tenth anniversary last Sunday of the military coup that ousted...
Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA, speculates that the Soviet Union was so stung by its inept handling of a similar, 1978 Korean airliner intrusion over their territory that individual air-defense units now have standing orders to direct any interlopers to land and to shoot them down if they do not. "Their priorities are different from ours," Inman says. "They place highest priority not on human lives but on preventing penetration of their airspace." The Kremlin had time last week to learn what was happening at the lower command levels, Inman suggests...
...school on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. The institution boasted a dual curriculum: "the Priceless Legacy of Scripture and Commentaries," and social studies and French. As Brill puts it, "The waters of Shiloh springing from the head of Western Civilization." But the experiment flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah Lilt, who sits immobile | and mute in the classroom...
...front of Darth Vader's army. The hero: Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...