Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims are dying unseen. Amateur radio operators desperately broadcast news from Zepa, a small Muslim enclave in a Serb-controlled region 35 miles east of Sarajevo. Through the static, they reported that in one 24-hour period last week, 85 people, including 51 children, died from cold and hunger...
...which he played a seductive wolf-man) who is now starring on Broadway as a Middle East hostage in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, has long tangled with questions of personal and national identity. He is an Irish Protestant; his Irish Catholic wife, Delours Price, was an IRA hunger striker convicted of car bombings 20 years ago. "The whole nature of my country has been in question," he says. "If you use an army to solve a problem -- the British army, for example -- violence is inevitable. That is what people like Fergus fear, and that is when they start...
...country more imagined than recalled, an ur-land of fatedness and tragic history. On the other is a bright, forgetful America, where every sunset takes the day with it. For years Rodriguez has been negotiating the divide in a mood of deep melancholy. In 1981 he published Hunger of Memory, an account of his longings en route through the parochial schools of Sacramento and the university campuses of Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley. Still puzzling over his mixed identity, Rodriguez has moved on to this book, a suite of loosely joined reflections on Mexico and the U.S. by a man making...
AFTER MONTHS BEHIND BARBED WIRE AT KROME DEtention center outside Miami, some 160 Haitian refugees concluded that it was time for a desperate gesture. They announced a hunger strike to win their freedom, in an effort to protest what they see as an immigration double standard. The Haitians watched angrily as 48 Cubans who hijacked an airliner out of Havana earlier this month were released almost overnight. Hundreds of black Haitians -- who risked a 600-mile sea voyage in rickety boats to flee an often cruel military rule -- have been detained for months while their asylum claims are reviewed...
Most of the hunger strikers abandoned their fast after nine days, reputedly because of threats by immigration officials. However, some 45 Haitians -- mostly women -- continued. "They don't want to live. They were victims in Haiti, and now they're victims here too," said refugee lawyer Cheryl Little...