Word: unpreparedness
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Because of the rapid exodus, U.S. Government officials were caught unprepared, and have fallen behind in the processing. "Organization!" scoffed Stuart Callison, an Agency for International Development official assigned to Pendleton. "We beat the first load of refugees here by an hour and a half. That's how organized...
Sticks and Bones is, first of all, the story of a blind and emotionally--mutilated Vietnam veteran returning home to a family that is supremely unprepared to receive him. But Rabe is talking not so much about the Vietnam War as about the cultural distortions that made America's involvement...
The situation at Andersen was difficult from the beginning, reports TIME Correspondent David Aikman. Base personnel were obviously unprepared for the arrival of such large numbers of refugees. But despite the confusion and complaints (mostly from Americans) about the two-hour mess lines and the quality of the food, the...
Russian Reassurances. As preparations for the mission continued, some American officials were still worried over the failure of the latest Soyuz flight (TIME, April 21). The Russians sought to reassure them. Referring to the Soyuz's emergency landing near the Chinese border, Major General Vladimir Shatalov, chief of cosmonaut...
A long deferred impulse led me to confront my more journalistically practiced juniors, if only to determine the meaning of 'Comp.' But I never dared ask until a few days later, when actually requested to write up for publication the thoughts I'd garbed out that night, unprepared to justify...