Word: plight
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Dispensable Cog. Regardless of the sinuous internal motives behind the uprising, many U.S. editorialists and cartoonists faulted President Johnson for Ky's plight, arguing that the Administration had been overly enthusiastic in its support of the Premier, making him appear an American puppet in the eyes of his countrymen. In fact, Johnson had been scrupulously careful in his meeting with Ky, proceeding on the logical assumption that Ky was no more expendable than any of the other nine members of the Saigon junta. Indeed, Ky has never considered himself an indispensable cog in the Saigon government. A few months...
Smith bowed finally to the demand that his group go back to Mississippi and lay the proper groundwork for an agency grant. For, while the capital camp-in smacked of a Gogol comedy, the plight of the Delta Negroes, evicted from their sharecroppers' homes after they struck cotton plantations last year, was indeed tragic-and hardly likely to improve without federal help...
Next day, in a talk before the National Press Club, Mrs. Gandhi showed more sympathy for the U.S.'s plight in Viet Nam than any other Indian leader had ever done before. "The Americans are in a difficult situation, and I can understand their difficulties now," she said. "I have been in my talks with Mr. Johnson impressed by the sincerity of the President's desire for a peaceful settlement in that war-torn country." Later, in a joint communiqué, the President and Mrs. Gandhi agreed that there should be a "just and peaceful solution of this...
...plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it tumbled out of control on its high orbit. Last week, when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott seemed to have come even closer to disaster. Their firsthand account, and further interpretation of telemetered data, supplied frightening new details about Gemini's troubles; to make the danger even more dramatic, there were the remarkable color snapshots and motion pictures brought back to earth by the astronauts...
...Society expenditures in order to honor the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam. While accusing Johnson of "politics as usual, promising everything to everybody and forgetting the hard realities," Brooke himself offers no realistic way out of the dilemma-which as eloquently as any argument in his book bespeaks the plight of the Republican Party...