Word: hungering
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...street from Holy Name Catholic Church, where about 180 families wait in line for bags of food. Babies chugging from bottles lounge in shopping carts, while toddlers diligently pile pebbles in the driveway. Mothers and a few fathers stand stoically in the warm sun, their blank stares reflecting hunger, poverty and fatigue. Yet their ennui dissolves in the face of the Madres' perky compassion...
When protesters began a hunger strike last week, Communist leaders gave in to nearly all of the opposition's demands. In an emergency session, the party's Central Committee replaced Batmonh, 63, as Politburo chief, with Gombojavyn Ochirbat, 61, a former head of the Mongolian trade union federation who was ousted in 1982, presumably having angered the leadership. Joining him in the new Politburo are four other reform-minded officials, all in their...
...last month rampaging white hoodlums attacked blacks with iron bars and baseball bats, injuring three North African immigrants. As the assaults continued, authorities flooded the city with 300 police to quell the violence and chase out immigrant street vendors, who have angered native-born merchants, inflaming tensions. After a hunger strike by more than 100 Senegalese, the city agreed to new rules governing street sales...
...tourists a day during the peak season, when the sidewalks and beaches are plump with prey. Kavera happily recalls the cameras lying on towels, the bags left unattended. "Tourists can be so stupid," he muses. In January, 26 guests, including Americans, Danes, Austrians and Spaniards, went on a hunger strike at a Copacabana hotel to protest the management's refusal to reimburse them for valuables stolen from 50 of the hotel's 94 safes. "There is no question that crime in Rio, especially violent crime, is increasing," says a U.S. diplomat who has been investigating the issue for the past...
...ignored, its people embattled and its children exploited. An annual inflation rate of 1,765% aggravates the huge gap between rich and poor. "Children learn to steal because they are hungry," says human rights lawyer Fernando Rodrigues. "If the problems of the distribution of wealth and the elimination of hunger are not solved, there is no way one can expect to reduce the violence in the streets...