Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delegates of smaller states will undoubtedly insist that Belgrade '77 take up particular causes dear to their hearts. Switzerland, for example, pressed the case for disarmament; Yugoslavia is expected to complain about the plight of a Slovene minority in Austria; Portugal raised the problem of its migrant "guest workers" in industrialized northern Europe. "Indeed, there are many more issues involved here than human rights, and many more countries present than the two superpowers," the lone delegate from the tiny duchy of Luxembourg remarked proudly. "Here there are a lot more of us than of them...
Most of those remaining live crowded in urban slums. Nowhere is their plight more dismal than in West Berlin-a painful embarrassment for a city that proudly boasts of being the "window on the free West." After a tour of the foreign workers' quarters there, TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader cabled this report...
...went to Spain and sang for anti-Franco International Brigade, and was named one of only three honorary members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His political consciousness aroused and troubled by Franco, Hitler and African colonialism, Robeson began to look back across the Atlantic to America, to the continuing plight of black Americans, and the battle that still needed waging for his people. "I was born with the rise of fascism," he was to say later...
Bellamy served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala and after getting her law degree from N.Y.U., joined the Wall Street megafirm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Elected to the senate in 1972, she got involved with the city's financial plight by chairing the Democratic task force on the crisis. Bellamy, 35 and unmarried, is eager to get on with the job. "I worry about my intensity," she says, "but government is the critical element in our lives...
...large, administrators have taken the students' plight philosophically. Not so, however, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., which has been forced to house students in motel rooms near campus until new dorms are finished. As a result, 105 George Mason students are enjoying maid service and color TV. The school's tab? Over...