Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Local Greek and Cypriot students and faculty members of the Committee for Relief and the Restoration of Democracy in Cyprus have collected over 100 pints of blood since Tuesday to aid Greek Cypriot victims of this week's fighting in Cyprus...
...Years. Nonetheless, it threw into stark relief the uncertain future facing the country. Europe's oldest dictator, after almost 40 years of ironfisted rule, has no obvious successor. There were fears, however exaggerated, that his death could touch off the kind of partisan fighting that engulfed Spain during the Civil War when, as the youngest general in the army, he gained power by overthrowing Spain's republican government...
...polished as Henning is, The Magic Show's success lies not with the star but with ourselves. In an epoch of uncertainty, people need a fraud they can believe in. Magic, with its cheerful promise of mountebankery, offers a kind of low comic relief. An audience that is fooled invariably laughs, delighted that its attention has been misdirected. To Magician-Historian Robert Lund, it is "a rebellion against science." To James Randi, it is "a sign that our society is still healthy. When people stop being enthralled by a magician who can make a lady vanish, it will mean...
Little change has been accomplished since then. Corruption has continued, including the imposition of exorbitant landing fees on planes bringing relief supplies for victims of a famine that has already killed an estimated 100,000 Ethiopians, and threatens 500,000 more (total pop. 26 million). The fees reportedly line government pockets...
...relic from some pre-democratic incarnation of our present society--even more shriveled than in the 1950's, I think. Harvard has not adopted the extreme activist view that every course must deal with the latest crises, or that those which do should be managed as base camps for relief expeditions; but it has evinced considerable awareness of a duty to serve society's immediate needs, and of the fact that these needs often simplify into such mundane requirements as food, clothing, shelter, health, and peace...