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...plight of NPR has captured public sympathy at a time when unemployment and business failures are words of the day, it is because the network has stood for something all too rare in the commercial media quality. That meant broadcasting the SALT talks in their entirety, or Cyrus Vance's Harvard Commencement address--not events a lot of people wanted to hear, but something a few listeners wanted to hear very badly, and would have been unable to had NPR not broadcast them. That's not the kind of programming decision that shoves a network into the black...
Organizers had said before the trip's start that they had hoped to raise $250,000. While Pallotta yesterday acknowledged doubt that the group would attain that goal, he said he believed the ride had proved "more than successful" in raising awareness about the plight of the poor in both developing and industrialized countries...
...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...