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...remarkable aspect of Lebanon's present plight is that for the first time in decades the U.S. is playing practically no role in trying to solve the country's problems. But the vacuum is troubling to many of Washington's traditional Arab allies, notably King Hussein. Earlier this year, Jordan drafted a United Nations resolution critical of Israeli West Bank settlements, with a text based entirely on previous U.S. statements on the subject. When the Jordanians asked the Reagan Administration to sponsor the resolution in the Security Council, or at least not to veto...
Braniff's plight was worse than that of most U.S. airlines. Nearly all were ravaged in the late 1970s and early '80s by problems ranging from rising fuel costs to competition from upstart cut-rate carriers. Under the brash leadership of former Chairman Harding Lawrence, Braniff began to add planes and expand routes just as the economy was dropping into recession and oil prices were heading for another sharp increase...
Unfortunately, the difficulty of helping hungry people on an individual level all too often leads to a callous unwillingness to deal with them at all. Like this country's president, most of the public seems to hope that the homeless will simply go away, taking their plight with them. At the pizza place in Berkeley, the student clientele greeted the crowd around the trashcan with derisive yells of "Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come...
...That has reinforced complacency concerning the particular and peculiar plight of Black America today," he added...
...significance of Malcolm X's life was his diagnosis of the plight of the Black man in this country. He spoke a truth that many did not wish to hear, and ignited an anger that became hard to contain during violent times of change...