Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until all of the U.S. prisoners are out and have told their stories, it is difficult to compare their plight with that of other captives in other wars. No one yet knows how many died in the Communist camps-just as no one can say how many Communists may have died in such South Vietnamese prisons as Con Son, with its famous "tiger cages." P.O.W.s have never fared especially well in any war, except perhaps for some in World War I's Grand Illusion, the classic movie that chronicles the remnants of chivalry in an otherwise brutal conflict...
...Republic professes to want reunification, but this claim is discounted by displays of indifference, even callousness, toward the plight of Northern Catholics and by insensitivity to the fears of Northern Protestants. The Dubliners really want the North to be given to them free-but not too soon...
...Commons debate on a subject that has roused his countrymen as few issues have done in recent years: compensation for some 400 children who were born deformed after their mothers took the tranquilizer thalidomide between 1958 and 1961. Belatedly awakened to the financial as well as the physical plight of the children, Britons have responded with a torrent of outrage directed at the former distributor of the drug, giant Distillers Co. Ltd. More important, perhaps, the outcry appears to have forced a widespread public examination of the outdated laws and traditions that allowed what the Sunday Times called a "national...
...editor who dares comment on a case sub judice risks being held in contempt of court and sent to jail indefinitely. The silence was broken last fall, when Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans published the first five articles of a planned six-part series on the children's plight. Evans escaped jail when Britain's Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, tortuously ruled that the articles already printed were not in contempt of court, but the last planned one would be (TIME, Dec. 4). That decision silenced the Sunday Times. By then, London Weekend Television had interviewed parents...
...second because of his organization support. Beame and Biaggi will probably face each other in a run-off with Beame and Biaggi would have to make substantial inroads in the Jewish community. The congressman is already making plans for that. He left for Russia Monday night to investigate the plight of Soviet Jewry...