Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While East Pakistan continues to suffer from the bloody civil war and the growing threat of food shortages, the other half of the divided country is bearing burdens of another sort. The army-backed federal government of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan remains totally committed to keeping the Eastern wing from breaking away to establish Bangla Desh, an independent Bengal state. But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves. "This regime has East Pakistan stuck in its throat," says one American diplomat in the federal capital of Islamabad. "The army must either swallow...
THOSE people who think that Mexico is teetering on the edge of revolution-and some like to compare the current atmosphere here to that preceding the Mexican Revolution in 1910-must suffer from the wildest delusions. If anything Mexico today is comparable to the United States before the First World War. Ripp'es from the counter culture barely touch the shore. Most Mexican students seem most interested-and not unsurprisingly-in getting themselves into a lucrative profession. The ones involved in the arts hope to find financially rewarding ways to use their abilities. A talented young photographer, rather than wanting...
...massive show at the Federal Building tomorrow-a peaceful, disciplined civil disobedience by protesters from all levels of society-can build the antiwar movement into a stronger, more confident force, which can suffer temporary defeat and rebound strongly and confidently, without the prolonged soul-searching which has characterized protest in the last year...
After rejecting two would be opponents. Ali demonstrated the Shuffle on sportscaster Dick Stockton, warning that "the Ali Shuffle will make you suffer...
...later child's sex is different, however, he may be rejected; in any event, he is likely to suffer from not being wanted for himself. In other families, says Stephens, a father may try so hard to "keep a stiff upper lip, because it's the British thing to do," that he shows his wife little warmth, and the marriage itself breaks down. The grief over the loss of a child is universal and inevitable. But Stephens insists that the consequences...