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Trivializing the plight of 20 million Peruvians by writing such a parody is completely unacceptable. What else could the author have had in mind when he glosses over history ("then it got really weird"), asks "where the hell is Peru?", misspells the name of the president throughout, compares a coup to "smoking a joint," and issues calls for the military to "stop doing stupid and brutal things to the Peruvians." I agree that the use of military repression is unjustified and unlikely to solve Peru's daunting problems...
...Texas -- wasn't as though you could have got tougher on drugs. Perhaps his most famous crusade was "Tell It to Hanoi!," an effort to succor and free the American pows held by the North Vietnamese in the early 1970s. While Perot focused the nation's attention on the plight of 1,600 American prisoners in North Vietnam, Richard Nixon continued to prosecute the disastrous war in the South, killing millions. "The North Vietnamese cannot understand how we Americans value the lives of even a few men," said Perot...
Boston area college students and homeless people will share common ground tonight as part of a "sleepout" at Tuffs University designed to heighten awareness of the plight of the homeless...
While some expressed sympathy for Fujimori's plight, the U.S. cut off all new nonhumanitarian aid, and the Organization of American States scheduled an emergency meeting to consider economic sanctions of the kind imposed on Haiti's dictatorship...
...baseball games. But recent studies and surveys back up my observation. The findings are greatly troubling, not just because they reveal an example of latent racism in our society, but also because baseball could--were it to attract Black fans--help in some small way to alleviate the plight of America's inner city poor...