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...refugees, most of them in the festering, hate-ridden camps of the Gaza Strip, have come under Israeli control. For Israel, it is vital that the refugees be taken out of the camps and resettled where they can lead productive lives. To most Arab leaders, however, the plight of the refugees is such a valuable political weapon against the Israelis that they will do nothing to help break up the camps...
...penalty abolished in all 50 states," says Melvin Wulf, the A.C.L.U.'s legal director. Although the Legal Defense Fund first started fighting capital punishment because of the high number of Negroes being sentenced to death, it has, as a matter of policy, broadened its horizons to consider the plight of poor whites as well. Between them, the two organizations have put together an unusuL battery of legal weapons in three current cases...
Behind the conference, attended by consulting engineers and World Bank and United Nations representatives, lay Caterpillar's high-minded-and shrewd -concern with the plight of developing nations, which must start clearing their underdeveloped land if they are to meet the food needs of their burgeoning populations. Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range...
...back to their parishes, enclosed them like sheep in workhouses, and now, in what may be the coup degrace, she is starting to file them away under the Welfare State. John Arden has not exactly taken up the tramps' cause, but in Live Like Pigs he looks into the plight of the Sawneys, a group of nomads who live something like a family and something like pigs...
...TIME's lavish contribution, in the form of a cover story, to the Israeli cause is exceeded only by the distorted, sketchy coverage afforded the plight of the Arabs. Neither eloquent oratory nor military victories can decide the rights of people. Win or lose, the underlying principle for the Arab struggle is no less justified. Where was indignant world opinion in 1947 when "third parties" paid off political debts with land that they did not own? Where were those who now call for justice when these parties permitted the Arab to be ejected from land he has owned...