Word: archipelagos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Hunger Action Project will sponsor a fast March 8 to raise money for agricultural equipment, medicine, and health supplies for the Cape Verde Islands, an archipelago 300 miles off West Africa...
While it tries to rectify inequities suffered by some of its citizens, the U.S. remains an adamantly segregationist society when it comes to the aged. No other culture, East or West, ships its old people off to the Gulag archipelago of nursing and retirement homes with such manifest indifference...
Despite Auschwitz, the Gulag Archipelago, Cambodia and Jonestown, we are being told once again that evil does not exist [Dec. 18]. Good grief! What would have to happen for Milhaven and Baum to accept the existence of evil? Having eliminated evil from the world, perhaps they would be so kind as to rid us of poverty, disease, pain and war as well. Robert H. Stein White Bear Lake, Minn...
...minimum interests in the region as "right of transit, access to petroleum, and absence of Soviet military bases." That probably remains the bottom line today. Toward that end, the U.S. may have to step up technical, economic and (very selectively) military aid. Already the U.S. has a potential "archipelago of allies" that aid each other in opposing Moscow-supported internal subversion and provide selective arms support to nations in need. Two examples: even though it maintains, officially, a nonaligned foreign policy, India has quietly tried to moderate Soviet influence in Afghanistan. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have sought to reinforce...
...Finally, a wall poster addressed to Jimmy Carter appeared on democracy wall. "We should like to ask you to pay attention to the state of human rights in China," it said. "The Chinese people do not want to repeat the tragic life of the Soviet people in the Gulag Archipelago. This will be a real test for your promise on human rights." The poster concluded with greetings to "your wife and family," and was signed "The Human Rights Group." Authorities removed the poster within a few hours, an indication that its message was unsanctioned Liberalization has its carefully defined limits...