Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to help Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, Oxfam-America, a non-profit organization that tries to improve conditions in third world countries, is sponsoring "Run Against Hunger" at Harvard on August 12 from...
Some 150 other pro-choice advocates joined the effort. They met vocal opposition from pro-lifers who were picketing Capitol Hill. Two women pushing baby strollers had a curt conversation. "This is a pro-life baby," said one. Replied the other: "This is a pro-choice baby...
...international effort begins to rescue Indochina's dispossessed...
Hanoi's calculated effort to get rid of the ethnic Chinese has been denounced throughout the civilized world. "Everybody knows the word that characterizes current Vietnamese policies," editorialized West Germany's prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "That word is holocaust." Said Singapore's Rajaratnam: "The best anti-Communist propaganda now being put forward anywhere in the world emanates from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi. However critical ASEAN countries might be about the many shortcomings within their own societies, they now have even greater cause to be wary of a 'liberation' that causes thousands of people to risk...
...usual, the fin was pumped with air and towed to the Icelandic whaling station 30 miles from Reykjavik to be carved up. Back on shore, Greenpeace Leader David McTaggart, 47, a dedicated environmentalist who had sailed a ketch into France's South Pacific nuclear proving grounds in an effort to halt atomic testing, addressed his companions: "What we saw today was disgusting ... disgusting. The whale is a mammal. It makes love. It is warm-blooded. It has been here 40 million years longer than we have...