Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment question, two matters seem clear: apartheid oppresses Black people in South Africa, and continued investment in South Africa implicates Harvard as at least a willing partner in the apartheid regime. These are serious issues. We can only hope that the University does, in fact, consider the plight of fellow humans in South Africa more seriously than the plight of long-extinct animals. Paul Bommans, GSAS History Department
...Jonathan M. Harris '69 holds nothing against Mammuthus primigenius. Indeed, he probably is very sympathetic to its plight of nonexistence...
...Shoshone Business Council. "Our tribes have great elders, but we have not used them to provide for our children's spiritual needs." To help the young recover some of their cultural identity, elders at Wind River are introducing students to a tribal tradition that may ease their plight. In the past few days, teachers and clinic workers have reported that the wave of suicide attempts has subsided. Perhaps the healing ritual has survived the decades of neglect...
...protest will try to "create a stir within the Soviet Union by inundating their government with letters and to awaken student concern to the plight of refuseniks as a human rights issue, not a Jewish one," said Melissa B. Milgram '88, co-chairman of the Hillel committee sponsoring the write-a-thon...
...faced with that problem today," said the President, whose four children are grown, in response to a press conference question. He expressed sympathy for the predicament of a child who cannot comprehend "why somehow he is now an outcast." Yet the President also said he "can well understand the plight of the parents and how they feel" about possible dangers. New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post that he "would be scared to death" to send his 15-year-old son Christopher to a class with an AIDS victim, but urged compassion for children with the disease...