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...protest will try to "create a stir within the Soviet Union by inundating their government with letters and to awaken student concern to the plight of refuseniks as a human rights issue, not a Jewish one," said Melissa B. Milgram '88, co-chairman of the Hillel committee sponsoring the write-a-thon...
...faced with that problem today," said the President, whose four children are grown, in response to a press conference question. He expressed sympathy for the predicament of a child who cannot comprehend "why somehow he is now an outcast." Yet the President also said he "can well understand the plight of the parents and how they feel" about possible dangers. New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post that he "would be scared to death" to send his 15-year-old son Christopher to a class with an AIDS victim, but urged compassion for children with the disease...
...meant to flow at Ruggles yet. The decision was overturned on a technicality. A Massachusetts appeals court ruled that the restaurant should have appealed the latest Cambridge denial to the ABCC before it took its plight to the courts. So Ruggles had to start all over again...
...main point of Farm Aid," says Illinois Governor James Thompson, "is to bring the plight of the American farmer to the attention of the nation." Beyond the publicity, however, it is not likely to have much of an impact. The $70 million Nelson hopes to raise would cover little more than one day's interest on the ballooning debt of the nation's farmers, which is currently $213 billion and climbing. "Willie can sing and pluck all night long," says Don Murphy, who sold his 240-acre farm in Henry, Ill., last year because he could not turn a profit...
...faculty and staff at Harvard can participate as individuals in the effort to overcome apartheid. As I indicated earlier, each of us can work for appropriate measures in Washington; the campaign for sanctions legislation affords an apt illustration. As suggested by Amnesty International, we can identify and publicize the plight of political prisoners and hence let the South African government know that the welfare of such prisoners is a matter of international concern. We can contribute money for the defense of South Africans whose human rights have been violated. There are even opportunities to go to South Africa to contribute...