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...plight of the wretched Vietnamese Boat People should make all of us cry in anguish. Can't we find a way to offer sanctuary to those desperate enough to flee from their homes instead of witnessing repeated capsizings of old tubs, drownings and miserable wanderings because no port is open to them? We are such a big country and they...
...People don't understand why so many women find themselves in this desperate plight," says Cynthia Marano, 31, director of the Baltimore center and coordinator of the alliance's newly formed successor, the Displaced Homemakers Network. She blames the whole spectrum of social change-ever-rising divorce rates, unemployment, inflation, longer life spans, stubborn sexism and ageism. One important new factor, she adds, is the no-fault divorce laws that have been adopted by 47 states. "They are basically beneficial to younger women, but leave older women without bargaining leverage and without enough to live on." All these...
...tragic plight of the blacks in South Africa is not relieved by sympathizers who refuse to acknowledge the consequences of what they do or propose and the oppressed don't need friends with the moral consistency of the Kennedy School students who advocate the renaming of their library even if the Engelhard Foundation's money is not returned. If not reminded, they don't object to sharing in the fruits of alleged exploitation...
...went home to Bacon County, got married, and spent the next few years trading one barren farm for another, always behind at the bank. One story especially illuminates the Crews' plight during these years: In 1936 they got a little ahead and were able to buy two cows. Early one morning, Mrs. Crews, cleaning the floor with homemade lye, happened to notice their two cows wandering towards a barrel of lead poisoning used for spraying tobacco plants. She yelled for Ray, but far out in the fields he couldn't hear her, and so she started for the cows herself...
...tide of refugees, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last month called on the U.N. General Assembly to convene a conference on the entire question, a meeting now scheduled for Geneva in December. Even before that, the U.S. Congress will hold hearings on the refugees' plight and the possibility of higher U.S. quotas...