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They are, in all their faces and feelings, the unemployed American workers of 1980. And, as the recession rumbles on and their numbers grow, their plight has become a major presidential campaign issue. The Department of Labor reported last week that the jobless in the U.S. have increased to 8.2 million, a startling jump from the 6.3 million without work in February. Now 7.8% of the American labor force sit on the sidelines of business, and Carter Administration economists predict that the rate will reach 8.5% later this year and stay there through most...
...York City, the General Assembly met in an "emergency session" - only the seventh in the U.N.'s 35-year history- to consider the plight of the Palestinian Arabs. Under discussion was a draft resolution, sponsored by a number of Arab and other Third World nations, that would endorse the right of Palestinians to form their own sovereign state and that would order Israel to retreat to its pre-1967 boundaries. On previous occasions, emergency sessions had been called to deal with fast-breaking crises, such as the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 and the outbreak...
...realize that the plight of Black players in recent decades has been worse than it was several generations ago. Several past notable violinists include Jose White (1833-1920), who was a concerto soloist with the New York Philharmonic more than once in the 1870s; Joseph Douglass (1869-1935), grandson of the legendary Frederick Douglass and the first Black violinist to tour the United States as a recitalist; and Clarence Cameron White (1880-1960), who was active as a composer in addition to his concertizing...
...bash was over, Sierra Leone was left with more problems than ever: an authoritarian government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar to that of neighboring Liberia, where Stevens' friend and predecessor as O.A.U. chairman, President William Tolbert, was killed in April during a coup staged by noncommissioned officers. White's report...
...residents of Ajo, where the survivors were taken, are normally indifferent to the plight of aliens, but they collected money for the Salvadorans. The Legal Aid Society plans to go to court to foil any plans by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to expel them, and Arizona's Senator Dennis DeConcini asked the Administration to permit the aliens to live in the country that they had tried so desperately to make their home...