Word: venting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investigators suspect that the overheating in the first craft resulted from a cooling vent having been blocked by a crewman's flak jacket and bag. If so, that obviously was human error. The swirling sand, investigators say, could not have cracked the rotor blade in the second craft. The cause may never be known. The failure of the third chopper's pump also is a mystery and presumably could not have been caused by sand because the helicopters' hydraulic systems are well sealed...
...poor and simple. But Caan refuses to heighten this classic confrontation between soulless bureaucracy and the individual who has no weapons on his side. Dramatically, the underplaying of Hacklin's frustrations may be a mistake; one yearns for a scene in which Caan busts loose, gives full vent to his pain and anger. Yet there is something touching in his patience, his refusal to generalize his case into an indictment of society. The discontinuity between the care the Government is willing to lavish on a helpful hood and its indifference to a good but anonymous citizen who is impeding...
...efficient a murder. To us, it seems like a contract job." U.S. Ambassador Robert White agreed, adding that a government official had informed him that right-wing Cuban exiles were operating in the country. The widespread suspicion was that rightists may have ordered the assassination, either to vent their outrage over the reforms or simply to help foment the chaos that might provoke a complete military takeover...
Hausner gives no credibility to Eichmann's prison denials. "I don't believe him when he says he is not antiSemitic. We have evidence of his own acts. And we have other private remarks of his in which he gives vent to his feeling that he would have been happy if all 11.3 million Jews had been exterminated...