Word: plight
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Almost forgotten amid the word games was the plight of the evicted and of the 8 million others in drought- and famine-plagued Ethiopia whose lives are hanging by a thread. The Ibnet episode highlighted the ways in which political issues have complicated and sometimes obscured a humanitarian problem. It also deepened the unease of Western governments and relief agencies faced with a leadership in Addis Ababa that accepts their aid while reviling their principles. "There is a growing awareness in the relief community of just how ruthless the Mengistu government is," said Chris Cartter of Boston-based Grassroots International...
...message is unpalatable, the alert political go-getter tries a captivating messenger. Or, in this case, three of them: Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek, who spoke to a Democratic congressional task force last week on the plight of economically pressed farm families. Journalists and onlookers jammed the hearing room to listen to the actresses who had played farm wives in The Dollmaker (Fonda), Country (Lange) and The River (Spacek). "It is heartbreaking to witness their anguish as they watch their lives stripped away," said Lange as she choked back her emotion and brought Fonda to tears. Warned Spacek...
...victory parade in Hue, pointing up the ambiguities of the celebration. CBS's Walter Cronkite returned to Viet Nam with Republican Congressman John McCain, a former prisoner of war, and revisited the place where McCain had been shot down and imprisoned. Today offered a moving segment on the plight of Amerasians in Viet Nam, the children fathered by American G.I.s and now treated as outcasts. Nonetheless, viewers could not be faulted if they felt they were seeing the country through a peephole. The coverage of Viet Nam took up more than enough time, but in an important...
RELEASED. Gary Dotson, 28, convict serving a 25- to 50-year sentence for a 1977 rape; on $100,000 bond while Illinois authorities consider his plight; from the state penitentiary at Joliet. The trial judge had freed Dotson on bail five weeks ago, then decided that the recantation of his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, was not sufficiently believable and returned him to prison after a week. Said Dotson after he left prison: "I feel like a pinball...
...weakness in the economy would make the plight of minority youths even worse. The Commerce Department reported last week that the index of leading economic indicators, a gauge that attempts to predict future business trends, dropped .2% in March, portending sluggishness for the rest of the year...