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Rivera's favored status and his independence have hardly made him popular among his colleagues. Some resent his leapfrogging past others with more experience. Others point to his aggressive tactics. Last fall, for instance, Rivera decided to cover the Israeli war. When the station's decision was to send no one, Rivera dashed over the station director's head to the network and wangled an O.K. Says one WABC executive, "Geraldo lines people up behind him to fight for what he wants, and then plays them off against one another...
...sister-in-law," she now sees Elizabeth in Wales on weekends. Jan cries more easily than James did, and is absurdly pleased when she gets an admiring glance from the milkman ("I know it is nonsense but I cannot help it"). She observes, but does not particularly resent that men do not take Jan Morris as seriously in conversation as they once did James Morris...
...Department's auditoriums and conference rooms, an indignant employee wrote to him protesting that such a restriction "is tantamount to suggesting I not drive my car to work because 35,000 persons were killed in auto accidents last year. The choice to drive is mine...I enjoy smoking. I resent being denied that small pleasure. I take exception to the Secretary denying me the right to such a personal choice...
...tied to the Scots' feeling that they would be better off without the dead weight of England's colossal problems. "England is bankrupt and has nowhere to go," says Robert Curran, 50, a recently returned émigré. "Our whisky alone could float the government." Many Scots resent the fact that they hold few influential positions in the south, while Englishmen control many of the best jobs in Scotland. Despite net emigration losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate twice as high as, and a standard...
...Eisaku Sato what was afoot with HI Sato's Chinese neighbors. Even if rumors of Nixon's proposed visit had leaked, some critics say, it would have been less damaging in the long run than Japan's subsequent loss of face. One specific complaint of U.S. intelligence experts who resent Kissinger's excessive sense of secrecy: the fact that information about his talks in Peking with Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung have never been allowed to circulate beyond the White House...