Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission chastised superior officers in the chain of command who had visited the Beirut airport facilities but then made no suggestion that security there be improved, even though the battalion headquarters provided "a lucrative target for attack." Higher officers, the report said, felt "it would somehow be improper to tell him [the on-site commander] how best to protect his force." Cited by title, but not by name, for failing to supervise security adequately or to clarify the rules of engagement, were Vice Admiral Edward Martin, commander of the Sixth Fleet; Admiral William Small, commander of U.S. naval forces...
...free movement of people will ultimately come into the range of what is possible. However, if we refuse to cooperate with the Soviets in these fields, in which they have always lagged behind, and if we instead demand concessions in the only area in which they are equal or superior to the West, namely in armaments, we shall have to wait a long time for security, human rights and a secure peace. Our goal is a policy that combines strong defense and cooperation with the Soviet Union...
...Angeles police planted three agents in classrooms at California State University in Northridge to spy on students. A woman operative joined the Committee on Nuclear Information, an antinuke group, eventually becoming its president. The police also gathered intelligence on members of the police commission, a state assemblyman, a superior-court judge and even the mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley...
Amazing grace, indeed, that saved a wretch like the one we are shown. And amazing (if possibly unconscious) patronization on the part of the film's creators. There is none of the affectionate respect for working-class life and values that marked the similar, and far superior, Norma Rae, nor any of that film's sense of felt reality either. One senses that Nichols and his colleagues are reporting on a sociological field trip, that they made no instinctive emotional connections with Silkwood's milieu...
...bottlings have been reduced by $2, to $4.99. A 1982 Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...