Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marlon Brando deserves praise for placing more importance on the plight of the Indian than on the much sought after Oscar...
...current issue of Newsweek magazine contains an article describing current efforts by wives of Pakistani POWs to make people aware of the plight of the prisoners. The article says that they have followed the pattern of their "American counterparts...placing full-page ads in the Western press, touring the U.S. and Europe and buttonholing every foreign newsman they can find to tell their story...
Colonel Risner named Oct. 15, 1969 as the beginning of improvement in the prisoners' treatment. The credit for the change seems to belong to all the people who tried at about that time to focus world attention on the plight of the P.O.W.s-President Nixon, the wives of the P.O.W.s, Congress and the media. Embarrassed by world pressure, the politburo in Hanoi may have passed the word to go easier. At any rate, prisoners were allowed for the first time to exercise outdoors for 30 minutes, but behind bamboo screens so that they could not see each other; they...
...officials held a panicked powwow. "We even considered arresting her," admitted Howard Koch, the show's producer. (The tickets were supposedly nontransferable.) With stars taking their seats all around, Koch decided to talk to her instead; she promised not to read a yawning five-page speech on the plight of the Indians that Brando had prepared...
...altercation at Wounded Knee, S. Dak. [March 12], serves to point out the desperate plight of the American Indian. Symbolic of Indian treatment. Wounded Knee bleeds and festers with an indignant discontent indicative that change is needed, and needed quickly. Violence can never be condoned, but something must be tremendously awry in our society if only through violence can minorities progress out of poverty and ignorance. If America does not heal its Wounded Knee, it will become crippled for life...