Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...platform, there was a woman in a sari reading the matrimonial ads in the English- language newspaper India Abroad, looking at one "inviting correspondence" for "a well-educated professional with a green card." Next to her a woman from Viet Nam folded herself into the sit-squat of Southeast Asia, while she spooned American mashed pears into a baby in a folding stroller. Farther along the platform, a woman from Nicaragua, now a U.S. citizen, explained the subway system to her niece. The older woman, in secret and at great expense, had retrieved her niece the week before from...
...about kaffeeklatsches, but physical and moral support." Immigrant women also suffer the frustration of being regarded at home as fringe contributors, when in reality their wages are almost always essential to the family's survival. Some immigrant women have been physically abused by employers. Many of the women among Southeast Asian boat people were abducted and raped by marauding pirates; they still suffer shame and a haunting sense that they have somehow betrayed their families. Worse yet, once in the U.S., their men, who may have trouble finding work, sometimes turn on them. Says Gaoly Yang, who helped battered Hmong...
...impossible to generalize about their experiences in becoming Americans. For many the closest thing to a common hurdle is the daunting necessity of adjusting to a new culture, an especially difficult challenge to non-English speakers. "English is the great prohibitor," says Martha Copenhaver, the director of a Southeast Asian education program in Arlington, Va. "Without it, you can't advance even if you are otherwise qualified...
Meanwhile, a vigil had been in progress roughly 50 miles southeast, at the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. U.S. Ambassador to Syria William Eagleton, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shareh and other officials of both nations had gathered at noon on Saturday to greet the hostage convoy. They also waited. And waited...
...North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh as a benign nationalist rather than a ruthless Communist; denigrated the South Vietnamese government and people; overstated the extent of drug abuse and morale problems among U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; and underplayed the brutality of the Communist regimes that took over in Southeast Asia after the U.S. departure. The Inside Story analysis lends credence to some of these complaints, though it also points out several factual errors and oversimplifications in the AIM program...