Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side or the other. In 1891, civil war broke out when part of the armed forces sided with a progressive President, Jose Manuel Balmaceda (who committed suicide when he lost), and part with a Congress determined to block his reforms. Allende frequently drew parallels between Balmaceda's plight...
Meanwhile, Sakharov remained imperturbable. In yet another of his now famous forbidden interviews with foreign newsmen, he asked that the security conference consider the plight of dissidents being tortured in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. As for himself, he said: "I am no more afraid now than I have ever been. The world has its eyes on me. I think the world will save...
...Tucson Dr. L. Winston Martin. Adds Allergist Dr. Rueben Wagelie: "Bermuda grass thrives in this climate and gives off pollen from February to October." Although the doctors are struggling to alleviate their patients' distress, the only real cure is the one Mrs. Sturgis chose in 1953-flight. The plight of the allergy sufferers arouses little compassion in Jack Taylor, owner of three thriving Tucson nurseries: "The pollen isn't any problem at all to 99% of the people here," he says. "The other 1% can go live in a remote mountain village...
...purse asked the check-out clerk to remove a can of cat food from her order. The clerk offered to pay for it because "I wouldn't want your cat to go hungry." The woman replied, with a weak smile: "I'm the cat." Her plight is shared by many of the elderly who live on fixed incomes. Says Robert Forest, editor of the Senior Citizens Sentinel: "Food prices are murdering the aged. The only two places they can cut costs are food and medicine - and the less food they have the more medicine they need...
Apolinar's plight is not uncommon among farm children in the U.S. As many as 300,000 agricultural workers under 17 spend more time in the fields than in school. In California, about 95% of these laboring children are Chicanes and Mexicans. Many receive hardly any education at all as they follow their parents from one harvest to the next. They are in the fields by sunup seven days a week, often in 100°-plus heat, frequently near dangerous farm machinery and toxic pesticides...