Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...otherwise unknown people, while on the other hand you become personally involved with the drawn-out spectacle of a human being operating on an auto-destruct frequency. You find yourself reduced to the conclusion that the ingredient of empathy has come into play at some point during the vigil, even if the precise reasons accounting for your continued presence persist in eluding...
...LONELY VIGIL: COASTWATCHERS OF THE SOLOMONS by WALTER LORD 322 pages. Viking...
...overture one Honolulu morning in 1941 (Day of Infamy). As a popular chronicler of historic days and nights, the bestselling author relies heavily on eyewitness accounts from participants and survivors. Incredible Victory, his narrative of the Battle of Midway, crackled with aging voices from both sides. For Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons, the author traveled 40,000 miles (including a rugged three-day bivouac on Guadalcanal) to assemble this story of the men and women who flashed reports of Japanese ship and plane movements and rescued more than 100 downed pilots. A number of foundering sailors also owe their...
...mind. On the conference's opening day, prisoners in Soviet camps and jails in Perm, Mordovia and Vladimir, east of Moscow, sought to draw attention to their plight by going on hunger strikes. In various Communist and Western countries, demonstrators organized protests or stood in silent vigil in support of human rights. When 15 women from nine countries appeared in Belgrade to demonstrate on behalf of Soviet Jews, the Yugoslav security police swooped down on them in their hotel and deported them before they could get near the conference hall. In Manhattan, three Croatian terrorists barricaded themselves inside...
Foreign newsmen kept a vigil outside the prison where Toth was held while U.S. embassy officials tried vainly to gain admittance to the interrogations. President Carter pronounced "the strongest objections," warning that...