Word: plight
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...Pointing out that the Code of Conduct is not part of the U.C.M.J., Krouse said: "Failure to observe the guidelines of this executive order is not in my mind a criminal offense." In any event, finding a middle course between the needs of military discipline and compassion for the plight of prisoners of war will be a difficult job of legal navigation...
Adulterated Efforts. As an Assistant Under Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy-Johnson Administration and author of the controversial Moynihan Report, which infuriated many black leaders with its study of the Negro family's plight, he played an important role in creating programs that were adopted by the Great Society. Unhappy with what has become of them, he charges that the efforts were all too often adulterated by politicians, "middleclass professional reformers, elite academics and intellectuals...
SOUTH AMERICA'S present political plight can be summed up in one stark statistic: three out of every four of the continent's citizens now live under military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
...Brown tried to make this point in his final remarks when he attacked the participants for lacking passion in their approach to the problems of youth and the plight of blacks. Brown was not implying that passion should supplant reason in the discussion, which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. accused him of saying. He seemed rather to sense that talk of the previous days had gone to the other extreme, that the syle of reasoned discussion had detached the conference too much from the reality of the social crisis occurring outside of the sedate, columned Whig Hall, and indeed, outside of Princeton...
...fact, the franc's plight was perhaps more a result of the strength of the Deutsche Mark than any weakness of its own. West Germany has been running large balance of payments surpluses regularly and has been regularly forced to sell marks to maintain the parity of four marks to the dollar. The mark is certainly under-valued, out the Kiesinger government is understandably reluctant to revalue upwards. To do so would make German goods more expensive on the world market and undercut the prosperity West Germans have been enjoying for the past two years--and it would...