Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow could not agree on terms to renew their informal "humanitarian" pact to allow West Berliners to visit relatives living in the Communist sector of the city...
...days, this would have been a sure path to the firing squad or a prison cell; but last week, in a surprise move, Tito dropped the government's criminal case and pardoned Rankovic for humanitarian reasons and because of his meritorious service in the past. As nothing else could have, that demonstrated how far along the road to reasoned mellowness Tito and Yugoslavia have come...
...pint of blood, then spent the next 18 hours making herself genuinely useful as a nurse. "She was terrific," said a sergeant, and last week General William Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, honored her with a rare Certificate of Achievement for patriotic civilian service for her "unselfish, humanitarian actions...
...high suicide rate among students [Oct. 14] suggest that there are too many young people in college who would be better off in the working world finding out what life is about? The tendency to push people through graduate school is too often motivated by monetary rather than humanitarian reasons. We end up with Ph.D.s who are expected to be leaders of men when their only experience is that of children going through school...
...paper's nondoctrinaire Democratic liberalism. Under James Russell Wiggins, a onetime Post managing editor, a group of scholarly writers achieve a force and clarity that stand out in sharp contrast with the inconclusive, ambiguous prose of most of their competitors. Combining a passion for civil liberties and humanitarian legislation with an appreciation of the U.S. need to assert its power overseas, Post editorialists have often done a better job of explaining President Johnson's Far Eastern policies than the President himself. Without a trace of truculence, they have argued the propositions that, like...