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Between five and ten of the students also are continuing a hunger strike that about 50 of the protesters had begun Monday to emphasize the urgency of their demands...
Marcia A. Savage, dean of the college, said yesterday that Appley was "frustrated" but that he did not mention calling in the police as an alternative. Appley relayed a message to The Crimson yesterday that he regrets the fact that students had undertaken a hunger strike...
...uncle, Leo Kohn, was one of Speer's "employees." For picking up a carrot to ease his hunger, he did not get one week of solitary confinement but was beaten to death with a shovel...
...most blatant offenders are the clusters of fruit jokes which constitute one of the show's main running gags. In a world where "things are seldom what they seem to be" and real decisions are impossible, LaZebnik's emphasis on immediate satisfaction of the appetites--in this case, hunger--makes a certain kind of sense. Nevertheless, there's only so much humor to be squeezed from a pear that turns out to be someone's fiance, or from a shepherdess blowing on a banana. And what's only vaguely amusing the first time around hardly improves with repetition...
...contrast, in the Communist-controlled countryside, land reform and collectivization, water conservation and increased use of fertilizer had raised food production well above the hunger levels of 1970-1973, when these areas were under heavy U.S. bombing. There was enough extra food in the country for city residents, but the only way they could get it was to go where the food grew; there were too few trucks to carry the food into the capital. Other considerations, such as the Khmer Rouge's fear that the U.S. would bomb Phnom Penh off the map, only added to the urgency...