Word: plight
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Historical Footnote. Nor is he a headline hound. His name alone assures heavy coverage, his activities have made most of it favorable, and his common sense precludes him from pushing his luck. Even on such an emotional issue as the plight of Vietnamese refugees, Kennedy has been low-key. He had studied the problem closely for two years, while quietly getting the Administration to provide additional medical and other assistance, before he staged open committee hearings this fall. In January he plans to return to Viet Nam for another check on the treatment of civilians...
...some rabbis, the misunderstandings that have arisen over the Mideast war indicate that even the best-intentioned Christians lack an understanding of certain concepts basic to Judaism. The churches' failure to appreciate Israel's plight, they argue, reflects an inability to comprehend the Jewish sense of peoplehood and the primordial place that the vision of Israel as the homeland for God's people occupies in the Jewish mind. Instead of concentrating on how the two faiths can jointly combat moral evils in the world, dialogue might better be served by greater stress on the fundamentals of Jewish...
Wolman's plight was brought into the open by a lawsuit for the relatively piddling amount of $174,000, the balance of a $600,000 bill the American Seating Co. claims he owes it. The corporation had put 15,000 seats in Philadelphia's Spectrum, a Wolman-constructed, $12.5 million sports arena. If Wolman's 300 other creditors follow American Seating's example, the chain-smoking entrepreneur, who values his assets at $92 million and his liabilities at more than $85 million, could be wiped out. Says he: "I can't tell how close...
...donated to colleges during the past year. The program began with an ad for St. Joseph's College, a small school in Indiana, which reports that, so far, the appeal in TIME has brought in more than $80,000. Our purpose is to help alleviate an increasingly perplexing plight of big and small colleges: chronically short of advertising dollars, most cannot afford the kind of influential messages that will attract a diversity of students and faculty and a healthy flow of funds...
Micronesia's plight is not the result of malice or considered U.S. policy but of the islands' place far down on any list of Washington priorities. Supplies ordered through the Department of the Interior can take as long as 16 months to reach the islands, and money for Micronesia is hard to come by. This year Washington has budgeted $14 million for the vast territory, a sum that disgruntled local U.S. officials like to point out is only a fifth of that targeted for a single Navajo reservation in the U.S. The Micronesians' copra and fishing trade...