Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nationalist troops commanded by Chiang Kai-shek and his German advisers. On October 16, 100,000 Red soldiers and camp followers slipped southwestward through the cordon. For a year, harried continuously by Chiang's armies, hunger, disease and local warlords, they walked west and north, 6,000 miles in all, to reach the barren cave-pocked lands near the Great Wall northwest of Yenan. Failure at any one of a dozen points would have meant extinction of Communist hopes, possibly forever; but success meant more than mere survival. Veterans of the Ch'ang Cheng would wage war against...
...Lung: Mining as a Way of Death," for example, a fuel company executive set up a new health plan for workers in the West Virginia and Pennsylvania mines he controls. In Washington, Coles is of ten consulted by powerful Congressmen of both parties. His testimony helped to launch the hunger crusade in the South in 1967 and to keep the migrant health program going when it was about to die in Congress two years...
Although they are without homes, migrant children in their earliest years are "quick, animated?tenacious of life." This does not last long, for hunger, disease and despair soon take their toll. "Migrant parents and even migrant children do indeed become what some of their harshest critics call them: listless, apathetic, hard to understand, disorderly, subject to outbursts of self-injury and destructive violence toward others...
Schorsch has been on a hunger strike since January 1 to protest his dismissal, which he claimed was not based on the officially states academic factors but rather on an antagonism with his personal behavior. At the time of his dismissal, Schorsch charged that his personal sexual conduct--especially that his relations with the 16-and 18-year-old daughters of a prominent Boston doctor--had been a factor in his dismissal...
Schorsch said he would accept no compromise offered to him by the Business School. In a flier which he distributed Wednesday, the 15th since he began his hunger strike. Schorsch said. "There can be no middle ground: Either the decision to dismiss me was fully justified...or I should be reinstated fully...