Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After months of confinement, many of the Haitians developed symptoms of severe depression; at least 29 tried to commit suicide. Hundreds of others complained of blinding headaches, stomach cramps and other ailments, which they attributed to uncertainty as to how long they would be held and concern for their impoverished families back home. The longer they waited for their status to be determined, the more desperate they became. At Krome, a forbidding enclosure surrounded by high watchtowers and double cyclone fences topped with barbed wire, one detainee explained why he had stopped eating the camp's food...
...plan. Many agreed with California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that the move was dangerous but the U.S. should probably "shoulder some of the risk" for ensuring a peaceful solution in Lebanon. Said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois: "We are all reluctant to commit U.S. troops, but it should be considered if that is the only way to evacuate the P.L.O." But there was also considerable wariness about placing American servicemen in jeopardy. Democrat John
Although the N.A.A.C.P. is committed to a registration drive aimed at adding 1.5 to a registration drive aimed at adding 1.5 million blacks to the 11 million now on electoral rolls, only one full-time staff member and a secretary have been assigned to the task. Similarly, only one staffer is involved full time with Operation Fair Share, a campaign of selective boycotts aimed at corporations that refuse to integrate their boards or commit themselves to hiring more blacks. The organization also has had trouble recruiting top-caliber staffers. Says Board Member Julian Bond: "Working for the N.A.A.C.P...
...capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan. "It was a stupid, macho decision," said a Western ambassador in San Salvador. "They have to clean out the vital areas of the country before going up into that wasteland...
...meeting with Provenzano. Tony Pro is now back in prison. He was convicted in 1978 of ordering the murder of a former official of a New Jersey Teamsters local. Fitzsimmons died of cancer last year. His successor as Teamsters president, Roy L. Williams, has been indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery, and is expected to stand trial in Chicago this fall...