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...petitions for redress of grievances, Follett and Johnson have charged their superiors with harassment. The Army has declared both petitions "without foundation." It should come as no surprise that when their tours of duty are up, the Lieutenant and her private have no plans to remain in the Army...
...could not last long without prompting resistance. When the Viet Minh began mobilizing in the early 1940s, land reform was at the top of its agenda. And similarly, when the U.S.-backed Ngo Dinh Diem regime refused in the late 1950s to implement a serious land reform program to redress the century-old grievance, peasants in the south began to resist, forming the National Liberation Front in 1960. Today, the Thieu regime has reversed its faltering steps toward land reform and handed back vast tracts to the former owners, while reforms in the NLF-controlled areas of the south continue...
...land. Troell's flair for faces shows poignantly in the aged, starving Indian women begging a scrap of meat from a frightened, guilty white woman. A narrator describes the oppression of the local Sioux tribes by the U.S. government as desperate Indians take to the warpath seeking food and redress, sweeping the settlers up in yet another external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside the blond and prosperous farmers. The worst of their savageries, the disembowelment of a pregnant settler, was cut from...
...delegates at yesterday's meeting chose members of these committees, a steering committee and a grievance committee to seek redress for student complaints, especially about insufficient financial...
Establish fair and effective mechanisms for the redress of grievances against municipal employees...