Word: suffering
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Specifically, members of the Democratic Black Caucus repeatedly heard that black troops: 1) receive a disproportionately low number of honorable discharges and are more widely subject to pretrial confinement; 2) suffer harassment and intimidation for wearing Afro hair styles or Black Power symbols; 3) fail to win key command positions over less qualified whites; 4) get the most dangerous combat jobs in Viet Nam if they show signs of black militancy; and 5) often receive indifferent medical attention there while in the field...
Died. Yehuda Leib Levin, 77, chief rabbi of Moscow's Central Synagogue since 1957 and unofficial spokesman for 3,000,000 Soviet Jews; of pneumonia; in Moscow. The white-bearded patriarch admitted that Jews in the Soviet Union suffer from the restrictions of "an atheistic culture." Like many religious leaders in Communist countries, however, he found it necessary to conciliate the regime. He took an anti-Zionist line and observed, accurately enough, during a U.S. visit in 1968: "There have been no pogroms...
...Soviet citizens-not just Jews -suffer from the Soviet government's policy of militant atheism and its refusal to consider migration as a right rather than a rare privilege," Davies said. He added that Jews were treated worse than other minorities, harassed by "anti-Zionist" campaigns and "deprived of the cultural ingredients needed to preserve their cultural and religious identity." He said that the State Department "deplored" this and was doing what it could to help. At the same time, Davies warned against exaggeration. "Claims that Soviet Jews as a community are living in a state of terror seem...
...reputation would be better served if the case were dropped. It is also possible that the proceeding will result in some mild admonition rather than the maximum penalty of disbarment. The irony is that the court acted, ostensibly, to protect its dignity but actually impaired it by seeming to suffer a bad case of the sulks. Whatever happens, Erdmann is likely to emerge either a hero or a martyr-or both...
...simply finds it extremely difficult to learn a foreign language, but has no legitimate reason for exemption. Although may be very conscientious and spend a vastly disproportionate amount of time studying for his class, he is unable to complete the coursework competently. The student's other classes may suffer from this lack of attention. This raises the question of whether or not it is fair to require such a student to learn a foreign language...