Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plight of the Palestinians [July 11] is deplorable. But let us not forget the inflexibility shown by the P.L.O. leaders, especially Yasser Arafat. They have refused any kind of compromise and have been the rudest of guests whenever an Arab country has extended hospitality to them. They have also allied themselves with villains like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. Arafat is getting what he deserves...
During a Mass in memory of Kolbe, John Paul spoke of the plight of Poland's private farmers. He praised church-related agricultural groups that had once served as the nucleus of Rural Solidarity for striving "to restore to your work in the fields its own special dignity." Then John Paul counseled the crowd "to overcome evil with good." Said he: "It is the program of the gospel, a program that is difficult but possible, a program that cannot be dispensed with...
...nuclear freeze. Two provocative British plays that recently made it to Manhattan, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Steven Berkoff s Greek, include oblique denunciations of the Tory leader. A new West End musical, the earnest, tuneful Blood Brothers (book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell), charts the plight of twin boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty of the post-welfare state, the other by a scheming rich woman whom theatergoers will have no trouble recognizing as a caricature of the Iron Lady. However these dramatists voted last Thursday, they must be grudgingly grateful that...
...coincidence, then, that nine of the 10 announced candidates watched White's videotaped announcement from a run-down church in the heart of Roxbury, where they were attending a forum that would deal with the plight of lower-class tenants...
...each stop last week, Foot and other Labor officials hammered away at their only potent issue: the Thatcher record on unemployment. The party's first ten-minute televised campaign message effectively focused on the plight of young jobless workers. The centerpiece of the Labor campaign is a five-year crash program to create 2.5 million new jobs, mainly by diverting some $17 billion now spent on unemployment benefits and tax-revenue losses. Other savings, according to the Labor platform, would come from scrapping the Thatcher government's planned $15 billion Trident missile program...