Word: plights
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...campaign and a brigade of international observers, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Voters supported Chávez's leadership by voting no in the recall referendum. It's apparent that the upper and middle classes, who are the minority, just don't get it. For decades, the plight of the majority poor was simply ignored. The tables have turned, and for the first time in decades the poor are enjoying health care, schooling and oil-revenue-backed food aid. You may not like Chávez, but he has stuck to his campaign promises, implemented his social reforms...
...morale high and shared his worldly goods with them. Shortly before being freed, he agreed to give five radio talks for his fans in the U.S., which had not yet entered the war (an event the Germans hoped his reassuring words could forestall). Not realizing how desperate Britain's plight had become since his capture, he produced a breezy account of camp life. "There is a good deal to be said for internment," he observed in the first broadcast. "It keeps you out of the saloons and gives you time to catch up with your reading." He spent the rest...
...Vietnam's Highlanders Thank you for your coverage of the plight of the Montagnards in the Central Highlands of Vietnam [July 26-Aug. 2]. I served in Vietnam as a fraternal worker of the Evangelical Church (Tin Lanh) in the 1960s and '70s, and returned three years ago on a travel-study tour. So I know Vietnam's state culture of denial and deception regarding the Highlanders. It must be very frustrating to seek to independently corroborate the claims of Vietnamese officials when access to locals is so controlled. James F. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies Bethel College St. Paul...
...paranoid totalitarian regime, is a frustrating bargaining partner under the best of circumstances. But efforts to convince dictator Kim Jong Il to abandon his nuclear-weapons programs could be made even more intractable by a growing call in the U.S. for Pyongyang to be held accountable for the abysmal plight of its starving, oppressed citizens. A bill recently passed by the lower house of the U.S. Congress authorizes Washington to spend millions of dollars promoting human rights in the North and helping thousands of North Korean refugees?legislation an insecure Pyongyang says is calculated to encourage a mass exodus, like...
...earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980; in Krakow, Poland. Born in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, he spent World War II writing for the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...