Word: suffering
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Over 500 Passamaquoddies live on this 99-acre strip of land. It is all the white man has left them. They wear white man's clothes, speak the white man's language, as well as their own, indulge in his pleasures, suffer from his problems, and learn from it all. The pain of time's cultural incarceration has grown numb; undaunted, they are happy, and they are building...
This severe health crisis is aggravated by poor quality government food supplies (which are guaranteed by treaty), allocated on the reservation. The Genocide Report notes, "More than 75 per cent of all Indians in the United States suffer from malnutrition and related diseases." The act of trying to eliminate an entire population by substandard food, housing and living conditions aggravated by poor health care is a deplorable program of action. Two nations that constantly boast of human rights policies are killing neighbors in their own backyards...
...Brown found a way to deplore the fact that the nation "relies on overseas sources for half the oil we consume." On a swing through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano strayed from his talks on welfare problems to argue that the poor would suffer most if the Senate failed to approve Carter's plan to rebate the wellhead tax on crude oil to consumers. Califano protested that less well-to-do Americans would not be compensated for the higher price of their heating oil under Senate bills...
...taken against them, enforcement is impossible. A number of countries, notably Libya, South Yemen, Iraq, North Korea and Cuba, provide terrorists with money, arms or a haven; they seem to enjoy watching the industrial democracies squirm. Tough anti-terrorist resolutions have been presented at the United Nations; they usually suffer endless delays and are then emasculated. Following Lufthansa Pilot Schumann's death, Derry Pearce, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, threatened a worldwide two-day pilots' strike unless the U.N. finally acted against skyjacking. After a promise from Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that an "urgent item...
...result, the Protestants suffer a basic insecurity, which creates a "siege mentality." They see themselves as a the potential victims in a political vice, caught between a Catholic majority they fear and a British government whose committment to Northern Ireland they mistrust...