Word: working
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been flying 15 tons of supplies a day into Phnom-Penh's airport. The Australians have provided three charter flights and 80 tons of food and medicine. The Japanese government has approved a $4.5 million emergency grant for Cambodian refugees and has recruited a team of medical volunteers to work in the camps. The scores of countries participating in this week's U.N. conference on Cambodia are expected to pledge considerably more assistance. Among them will be the U.S.S.R. Although the Soviets have done nothing to assist Western aid efforts, they are expected to boast of their food shipments...
...population to resettlement on rural communes that were no better than slave-labor camps. Even the wounded were prodded at gunpoint from hospital beds ?and left to die along the roadside if they were too weak to walk. At the camps, Cambodians of all ages were forced to work from dawn until after dusk planting rice. Families were separated, Buddhism abolished as the state religion and virtually every trapping of civilization disappeared: postal services, telephones, currency, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly...
Joan Baez sang at benefit concerts in Paris and Washington. Abie Nathan, known for his efforts on behalf of Arab-Jewish amity, sent food packages from Thailand. While governments debated how to cope with Cambodia's crisis, official agencies, religious and private organizations, and concerned individuals were at work to aid the catastrophe's victims...
...jumpsuits. For some years he has been one of the chief culture heroes in Germany, particularly in Düsseldorf, where he lives, teaches and, by way of extension of his social theories, sponsors an institute called the Free International University, supporting it with the large income from his work. He is seen by the right as a demented blend of gangster and clown, and by some of the less militant student left as a messiah...
...extreme case of the reverence accorded to Beuys' work in Germany happened two years ago, when one of his pieces-a bathtub on a stand, dotted with bits of sticking plaster-was mistakenly used to cool beer during a party in the museum where it was stored. No damage was done to it, but the owner sued and was given $94,000 damages by a German court, a verdict happily greeted by Beuys as a victory over the "exploitative self-interest" of the beer drinkers. Plainly, something had happened to the avant-garde in the half-century since Marcel...