Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several demonstrators had interviews with the recruiter. Bronson Harris, and told him their views about Dow, napalm, and the war. Harris said he pointed out to them the cancer research and other humanitarian projects in which Dow is involved...
Allies, Not Adversaries. When pressed to define his political outlook, Brooke offers such portmanteau labels as "creative moderate" or "a liberal with a conservative bent." While accepting the humanitarian goals of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, he faults the Administration's approach to helping the poor as "aspirin?it relieves the pain, but it doesn't cure." Both domestic-welfare and foreign-aid policies, he reasons, should be oriented more toward self-help and less toward the dole approach. "If you give a man a handout," he maintains, "you establish a chain of dependence and lack of self-respect that...
...among his authors: Daphne du Maurier, George Orwell, John le Carré, Kingsley Amis), who was born into an orthodox Jewish family, but chose instead to live out what he regarded as "the Christian ethic," becoming an ardent socialist and Labor Party pamphleteer in his politics and a humanitarian in all else, espousing such diverse causes as the abolition of capital punishment, postwar relief for Germany, aid for Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli war, and most surprisingly, clemency for Nazi Murderer Adolph Eichmann; of a stroke; in London...
...women represent more accurately that men the nation's hopes for such things as education of children I have fount that women have a more humanitarian approach," she said...
Quid pro Nil. It was difficult not to conclude that Hanoi's aim is to induce Washington to end bombing of the North on a quid pro nil basis. Thant has already urged the U.S. to "show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that...