Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Begin and Sharon remain in positions of authority in spite of their complicity in the Beirut massacre shows that Israel believes belligerence, self-righteousness and indifference to the plight of non-Jews are the only paths to survival...
Mendelsohn explained that Jewish organizations are developing several projects which will focus on the plight of the refusniks. In one of the programs being considered, college campuses will "adopt" a college-age refusnik, admitting him or her to the college "in absentia" and establishing contact by writing letters and cards...
...pleas on behalf of "decent, hardworking Americans" who "suddenly find themselves thrown out of jobs they have held for 20 or 30 years." To help these "decent, hardworking Americans," Mondale has chosen to make Japan a scapegoat and take the jobs from the Japanese. A "liberal" concern for the plight of labor cannot justify plundering the Japanese economy--and thereby unemploying Japanese workers--to prop...
...President pounding over the hills on horseback, his hounds in full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam and a narrow mind, last week chased...
...Bulgarian security service to stage just such an operation in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981? The Kremlin certainly had a motive for wanting Pope John Paul II out of the way. Since his election in 1978, the Pontiff has shown particular concern for the plight of Communist bloc Catholics, and also set about improving ties with Eastern Orthodox churches in the region. Moscow has long been suspicious of any such religious activity, fearing that it might stir up nationalist sentiments, especially in the Baltic republics and the Western Ukraine. But what must have irked the Kremlin leadership...