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...breaks my heart to read about the plight of immigrants in Europe [Feb. 6]. Asians and Africans have slaved for centuries to build an affluent society. But all these people get in return for their labors is curses and scorn...
...under no illusions about the popularity it the likely enactment of the policies advocated here, but neither am I under any illusions about the plight of the Black poor. To those who say that there will be no massive federal jobs program. I simply answer that in the absence of such a program, there will be no improvement in the horrible conditions which the Black poor suffer, period...
ARICINI article on this page in accurately describes Israel's domestic situation and its regional international relations. The article commits the unfortunate error of blaming the victim for his plight and points to Israel as the source of much of the instability in the Middle Fast today...
...agricultural and industrial projects had to be suddenly diverted to meet soaring energy bills. The consequence of OPEC's banditry is the setback of the development process by at least a decade. The world refused to blame the Arab dominated OPEC for much of the Third World's plight and African countries have only recently begun to encourage Israeli brainpower and investment in their attempt to rescue their ravaged economies...
...scenes of peasants and cripples, the most disturbing and effective of which is the scene on the heath when Lear comes upon Edgar and a crowd of other beggars who have taken refuge from the storm in a miserable, leaky hovel. Looking upon the unintelligible mass of bodies whose plight is so similar to our modern day "bag people," the audience finds new meaning in Lear's realization that when it rains, poor people get wet--"O, I have ta'en too little care of this!" the king exclaims...