Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's quiet words also underlined the plight of the "forgotten seven" hostages, those Americans randomly kidnaped in Beirut during the past 15 months and still held captive. The President seemed determined to set a tone of restraint, not chauvinism. "Even the band was unobtrusive," said one Reagan aide. Still, the White House had recruited a handful of Capitol Hill interns to pass out tiny flags and neatly hand-painted signs to the crowd. Most read WELCOME HOME, but a few were not so neutral. THANKS RON said one, and a banner read THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT...
...transcontinental phone calls from network anchormen and no publicized negotiations. It is not clear exactly who seized them, or where they are being held, or even whether all are still alive. Only because of the attention focused on the TWA hijacking was the U.S. public reminded of the plight of the seven other Americans who have been taken hostage in Lebanon, one by one, since March...
...Mengele hunters "looked for him in a white villa on the sea, in the back of a Mercedes, behind bodyguards and guarded by German shepherds." They did not guess, ventured Rolf, that the runaway Nazi might be living in penury in a ramshackle hut. Thinking of that sorry plight, and of the jottings about children and poodles that constituted the lion's share of the released documents, Rolf said he deplored the methods and madness of the doctor, but could not condemn him. "I don't support my father," he said, "but I don't want to betray him either...
...most troubling aspects of the plight of Flight 847 was that it was the third hijacking that occurred in the region within three days last week, and the second apparently engineered by Lebanese Shi'ites. In earlier times, Arab skyjackers tended to be Palestinians, from one or another faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, attempting to advance or at least dramatize the Palestinian cause. The politicization of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim community is one of the most significant and most troubling consequences of the Israeli invasion...
...free of charge, photographic and written material on Mengele, after his escape from Germany, to the weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte. The magazine's current issue carries the first installment of an article in which Rolf explains that while he had ideological differences with his father, he sympathized with his plight...