Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done about it. The slaying of the 16-year-old and many other less sensational individual tragedies of the Chinese in the United States, can be attributed to the many social and economic problems that beset large urban Chinatowns. Few people outside the Chinese community realize the serious plight of the urban Chinese and are surprised by news of delinquency and poverty among an ethnic group that is generally perceived as a hard-working one with a strong and stable family structure. But those within the community know its problems: inadequate housing, insufficient health facilities, language and cultural barriers...
Most of the attacks by Arab terrorists on jetliners or airports, however savage and irrational, have been interpreted as demonstrations of anger and frustration by Palestinian refugees who were trying to draw attention to the plight of their people. But the massacre at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport two weeks ago, as well as other recent hijackings, seemed to have a special motivation. Not only were the casualties particularly high-32 died-but the attack came almost on the eve of the Geneva peace conference. The Rome attack was apparently the work of a Black September splinter group...
...rhyming and nearly as easy to memorize as a song. Much of this is unavoidably lost in the otherwise excellent English translation by Huynh Sanh Thong, a Vietnamese scholar who has lived in the U.S. all his adult life. Jaded Western readers who may find Kieu's plight unconvincing can still enjoy the poem for its language, especially descriptions of people and nature...
Intrigued by the problems of his young patient, Psychiatrist Hakozaki began examining the plight of Japan's 5,000,000 southpaws. He soon discovered that there were many other left-handed children who were developing minor neuroses as a result of being forced to use their right hands...
Crouch, like a growing number of other observers, fears that the Prime Minister's militant attitude could touch off class strife in Britain's stratified society. Britons have generally sympathized with the miners' plight, but there is growing resentment against them over the coal shortage that they have caused by their month-long work slowdown...