Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Loc Ninh is the new Saigon-- life is cheaper, the people live better. Sau insisted that the Thieu regime had been doing everything in its power to prevent the PRG from rebuilding the economy and from producing rice. "They are trying to destroy us by bombs and hunger," he said, "but if they kill off our water buffalo it is a very serious problem for us for they are our equivalent of the tractor...
...ballet. Since then, Panov has been continually harassed. His phone has been cut off, he can receive no mail from abroad, and he has been roughed up by the secret police. Now confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last week that they had gone on a hunger strike "to the end." In New York, an emergency committee, including Mike Nichols, Beverly Sills, Joanne Woodward and Hal Prince, has set out to use concern over the Panovs' fate to influence the Russians to release them. One obvious leverage point is the proposed 1974 visit of the Kirov...
...effort to muster widespread support for the campaign, the activists suggested that students going home for the recess boycott their parents' Thanksgiving dinner tables. Faced with a challenge to their liberal values and the hunger on their children's faces, the organizers say, parents will break open their checkbooks and forward contributions to embattled, integrated free schools...
...would-be biographer. The Burr sections are Vidal's skillful précis of Aaron Burr's actual letters and diaries, containing intimate justifications for his adventures and intrigues. Burr, the sardonic wit, constantly sees through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring the man's "fine talent for defeating rival generals in the Congress." Burr libels Hamilton as having been a British agent during the Adams Administration; he mocks...
HILLES LIBRARY, Hunger...