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Inouye, who also received an honorary degree, accused the United States of "using" the plight of Soviet Jews when it was "handy politically" but then closing its doors when thousands were freed from the Soviet Union and needed sanctuary...
...reason I wrote this letter is that I cannot stand to see the plight of Blacks misrepresented. ROTC assailants are correct in saying that ROTC's discrimination against gays today is similar to that applied by the military toward Blacks historically...
...shops." Ngau and his colleagues became investigators, exposing links between logging companies and politicians. Later, when the Penans found the courts stacked in favor of timber interests, they took the desperate step of blockading logging roads. Ngau and Friends of the Earth provided legal help and made the Penans' plight the focus of international protests. "It is our time to look after our place so that it will have a future," says Ngau, who spent 60 days in prison for his efforts to help the natives...
Joel Rubinstein, a regional director of Amnesty International, will describe broadly the extent of human rights abuses in Hispanic societies worldwide, and Iris S. Gomez, a lecturer in law at Boston University, will discuss the plight of migrant workers in the Mexican border area...
...star Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky and Hutch), had contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion nine years ago and passed it along to her infant daughter Ariel and son Jacob. Since Ariel's death in 1988, the Glasers have devoted much of their energies to publicizing the plight of AIDS-infected children...