Word: plight
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...Murray's plight gained notoriety after she was arrested on a prostitution charge Feb. 15, and although she told police she thought she had AIDS, was released on $120 bail...
...exercise in gunboat diplomacy in the Mediterranean, awesome though it may have been, did not help the plight of the hostages in Lebanon. In an atmosphere of rising tension, the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad organization, whose hostages are believed to include Terry Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, and Thomas Sutherland, a dean at the American University of Beirut, defiantly warned that its captives would be killed if the U.S. attacked. Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Party of God movement, personally challenged the Sixth Fleet. "What can they...
...threat to Waite remained shadowy last week, there was nothing ambiguous about the plight of four Beirut University College teachers, three of them Americans and one an Indian, who were abducted in January by gunmen posing as policemen. A Shi'ite splinter group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine warned Israel that if it did not release 400 jailed guerrillas within a week, the four teachers would be "executed" and "their corpses thrown in the garbage cans of Cyprus...
Along with the fate of Terry Waite and the plight of the hostages in Lebanon, the U.S. was concerned last week about the detention of Wall Street Journal Correspondent Gerald Seib in Tehran. Seib was one of more than 100 foreign journalists invited by the Iranian government to visit the country and, not incidentally, to report on Iran's recent progress in the gulf war. Toward the end of a five-day visit, he was suddenly arrested and accused of being "a spy for the Zionist regime." For several days it appeared that he would be brought to trial...
Some students have renamed the events of 1969 the Lost Cause, longing for the time when concerted protest action brought about change. Of course protest continues, now centered on the contemporary cause of divestment. Other issues, including the quality of undergraduate education and the plight of the junior faculty have also divided the administration and students. But unlike 1969, the corporate governance of Derek Bok has become so consumately protective of the institution that even initiatives from the top routinely meet with rejection or stagnation. The University has become expert at resisting pressure of any kind from any quarter, maintaining...