Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking with no prepared text, the independent candidate for Congress from Boston's ninth district claimed that the civil rights movement must become a human rights movement, concerned not only with the specific problems of the Negro but with the plight of all of America's alienated...
...White Paper, the Education Ministry bewails the plight of the ronin-and passes the blame on to Japanese social rigidity. The country has 72 states and 188 private colleges, but the ronin aspire chiefly to get into only four of them: the state universities of Tokyo and Kyoto and the two leading private universities, Waseda and Keio. Because old school ties at these colleges are so strong-stronger than in the U.S.'s Ivy League and even than at England's Oxford and Cambridge-graduation from one of the four is a ticket of admission to good jobs...
...group that coordinates and finances the activities of some 16 separate "freedom fighter" organizations aimed at freeing the African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses, but not enough to make them abandon apartheid and white supremacy...
Whatever her fate-and in a city warmly sympathetic to her plight, it is not likely to be harsh-Arlene Del Fava's arrest stirred angry questions about the kind of weapons, if any, that ordinary citizens may carry for self-protection. Quite apart from whether most efforts at self-defense are even legal (TiME, June 26), the answers depend on a wide variety of confusing weapons laws all over...
Cheers & Handcuffs. At the first mass hearing last May, about 10,000 creditors showed up, as much to see the pudgy operator as to hear a report of ONAPRI'S financial plight. When he appeared, handcuffed to two policemen, his creditors cheered loudly. Natin, the court determined, had liabilities of $17.1 million, and only $4,900,000 in assets. But the court agreed to call another meeting to let the stockholders decide by a vote whether he should be given a chance to settle his debts or be declared bankrupt...