Word: children
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...harvest will be sufficient for only 1.75 million people. The remaining 2.25 million Cambodians face death from starvation or related diseases unless 165,000 tons of rice and 6,400 tons of cooking oil are imported in the next six months. Already, large numbers of the country's children five years or younger have perished, and according to officials of international relief agencies in Phnom-Penh, thousands of Cambodians are dying daily...
...Jordan. What I am insisting is that we Israelis should have the right to settle there, that we should not be considered foreigners, and that we should have the right to keep our forces there for our self-defense. I want to be able to go with my children and grandchildren to Jericho even as [West Bank Arabs] go to Natanya [in Israel]. The Arabs understand this. When the Egyptian delegation was here, they asked us to take them to the Horns of Hattin, where the Crusaders were defeated by Saladin. I can see their point...
...Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare." While Earl Warren...
...Cambridge schools. Twenty-five per cent of Cambridge high school students are minorities (40 per cent if you use federal, not state, guidelines). Incumbents nervously defend the committee's "Racial Balance Plan." Passed last year, the plan attempts to avoid forced busing by encouraging parents to voluntarily send children to racially-imbalanced schools by providing special "magnet" programs...
When you were a fourth-grader gym was a time and a place for Philadelphia kickball and the President's Physical Fitness Tests. But for the mid-Cambridge children who attend the Longfellow Elementary School, every two years their gym becomes a lesson in civics. But that isn't Cambridge's only peculiarity...