Word: plight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Having read a great deal on the plight of the Soviet Jews, I was impressed by the concise way you encompassed so many facts in a relatively short article [Jan. 25]. You have done a service for both the people who do not understand the problem and those of us who endeavor to explain it to them. Let us take a positive viewpoint and continue the "shouting." We have known the high cost of the "crime" of silence...
...century of turmoil has turned millions of people into exiles and refugees, the displaced and the dispossessed. Perhaps saddest of all is the plight of those who have found themselves aliens in their native lands. The two stories that follow deal with such groups...
...Total Victory? Gone is the glory of Normandy, the Bulge and Okinawa-battles in which, Ward Just recalls, there were "real heroes fighting real villains." In 1971, the Army is painfully on the defensive at home and in full psychological retreat in Viet Nam. Assessing the present plight of the military in an acute if contentious book, the Washington Post's former Viet Nam correspondent finds not a juggernaut but a jumble of men and machines in search of a mission...
...even acted by an Indian. Instead, he's a muscle-bound Mediterranean with an obviously Italian name. Now, the point isn't that an Italian can't play such a wooden Indian. It's that if Nelson were so godalmighty concerned about the Indian's plight, he might have tried to make as many opportunities available to Indians actors as possible. Seemingly, though, liberalism doesn't begin at home...
...hardly a siege, and certainly nothing like Corregidor or Leningrad. Still, over the past two months Communist troops have managed to threaten Phnom-Penh with isolation by severing some of its main links with the outside world. The Cambodian capital's plight is an acute embarrassment to the Lon Nol regime, whose eager but not always effective 160,000-man army has been unable to reopen the vital arteries without outside help. Last week, in what has become a familiar pattern since much of the Indochina war shifted to Cambodia last spring, Phnom-Penh...