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...survivors of the Holocaust, who were in displaced persons camps all over Europe, and the endangered Jewish minorities in the Arab world to join the established Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Jewish leadership made every possible effort to end the misery of the European refugees, rather than letting them languish for decades in camps as an international bargaining tool in a quest for an impossible dream...
Impediments to achieving full economic self-sufficiency and the persistent difficulties of re-integrating into society produce a certain weariness of spirit. By refusing to address the root cause of the continuation and proliferation of inegalitarian outcomes, we allow the most vulnerable among us to languish in a fate which most of us would find intolerable...
...President's discomforts, however fleeting, reflect some of the more basic needs his government will have to address in its first few months in power. Schools languish in disrepair. Garbage is piled high around the capital, and the municipal dump is an unsightly waterfront horror that breeds disease. Roads are barely navigable; in some places, the potholes have grown so large and deep that they are known in Haitian Creole as tonmbo, or tombs. At midweek, gasoline had still not made it to the nation's pumps, and the stockpiled supplies of street dealers were dwindling. It was a characteristically...
...CHANCE TO BE HEARD Consumed by debates over health-care reform and the crime bill, legislators have left four other major issues to languish. With votes on these expected before the 103rd Congress adjourns this fall, there is still time to influence the outcome. Time invites you to use the attached postcard to express your views...
...slaughtered by Hutu militiamen. Of those who survived the genocide, at least 2.2 million have fled the country, including a million Hutu refugees who pushed northwest into the Zaire town of Goma in just five days last week. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of earlier refugees, Hutu and Tutsi alike, languish in camps across the eastern border in Tanzania and across the southern border in Burundi. If the exodus continues, half the country's population of 7.5 million will soon have died or dispersed...