Word: suffering
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...their homeland. Others are reluctant to be relocated in areas that do not have a Viet Nam-like climate. All the same, the Government's interagency task force on Indochina refugees pledges that all will be in their new homes by Dec. 31, and that meanwhile none will suffer from the fast approaching cold weather. At Indiantown Gap, Pa., one of the three remaining camps in the U.S., the Army is installing heating systems in the barracks and other buildings and is gathering winter clothing. There is also an educational program under way-to explain the phenomenon of winter...
...traditionally unscrupled police force. Even if South Africa has been in recent years forced by economic and guerrilla pressure to edge toward a far-off detente with Black Africa, its lenience here suggests that the government, at least, does not consider the political message overbearing. The two plays may suffer from a sense of unsubtle didacticism, but an audience that expects an angry expression of the black rage it feels apartheid deserves will also be disappointed...
Moscow does not suffer defeat graciously-at least if its treatment of Boris Spassky is any clue. Since his 1972 loss to Bobby Fischer in the battle for the world chess championship, Grand Master Spassky, 38, has been snubbed by the Soviet government, denounced by Pravda and denied visas for travel abroad. Recently, however, all that has begun to look like a minor prelude to the latest problem Spassky's government has created...
...able to assemble his Cabinet. He had been stalled because the Socialists and Popular Democrats, who together polled 64% of the vote in April's election, refused to participate in any government so long as Gonçalves retained any significant power. Although the Communists will suffer greatly from Gonçalves' demise, they have tried to limit the damage by distancing themselves from him. Last week the party newspaper Avante called editorially for "a broad-based government" in which the major political parties would participate. Visiting Costa Gomes early in the week to discuss formation...
...understood, this year's St. Louis encephalitis seems to have bypassed the young and hit hardest at the elderly. In Mississippi, for example, the median age for SLE victims is 70, and there have been relatively few cases in people under 40. SLE's younger victims usually suffer nothing worse than a moderate fever, stiff neck, severe headaches and some lassitude. The aged are more likely to run high fevers, have convulsions and, especially if already debilitated...