Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elsewhere, Honasan's rebellion made itself felt in more tangible ways. In the northern city of Baguio, 600 cadets at the Philippine Military Academy staged a three-day hunger strike in sympathy with Honasan. The N.P.A., declaring its intention to take advantage of the confusion caused by Honasan's revolt, killed 27 police and soldiers in an ambush in two provinces. Though Aquino has called Honasan a coward for abandoning hundreds of his men, his image as a dashing, reform-minded renegade could establish him as a folk hero to rival the President. "That young man should be shot," says...
...Nicaragua. He broadcast a morale-boosting message that was beamed to guerrillas in the field over a rebel radio station. Three days later Reagan met with contra leaders in Los Angeles. In Washington, officials criticized the Sandinistas, issuing statements of support for imprisoned Nicaraguans who had embarked on a hunger strike and finding fault with Managua's attempts to comply with provisions of the peace accord...
...Marshall defined it, his program was "directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." In an era when the Truman Doctrine has been supplanted by the Reagan Docrtrine, and our foreign policy seems to lurch from one knee-jerk reaction to communism to the next, we might best remember the Marshall Plan not as a bastion against the East, but as a foundation for the open development of the West. The broad strokes Secretary Marshall painted here four decades ago remain an object lesson in how to overcome the limits of ideology...
...involvement in Amnesty International and in the 1987 Walk for Hunger is indicative of this penchant for social service. She cites a longstanding interest in human rights as motivation for her participation in both of these organizations. A faithful presence at Amnesty's bi-monthly letter-writing sessions, Ueno remarks that occasionally she and fellow Dunster resident Astrid Guttmann '87 were the only ones holding down the fort...
...296th Commencement with such honorands as T. S. Eliot '10 and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the former general unveiled a policy for reconstructing the European nations, devastated by the ravages of World War II. He pledged a commitment of U.S. aid to all European nations in order to combat "hunger, poverty, degeneration and chaos...