Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abruptly as it had begun, the threat by North Viet Nam to put captured American airmen on trial as "war criminals" was lifted. Last week, in soothing messages, President Ho Chi Minh explained that he would "continue to pursue a humanitarian course" with the downed flyers. "No trial in view," he cabled, in answer to a query from an enterprising CBS newsman...
Even if such atrocities were committed in the heat of battle, they cast a dark shadow across Ho's propaganda claim to a "humanitarian" role...
...announced that the trials will be held. Toward this end, Hanoi radio reported the establishment of "a committee to investigate war crimes of U.S. imperialists in Viet Nam." As for the ultimate fate of the airmen, Ho Chi Minh sent a message to Socialist Norman Thomas last week promising "humanitarian" treatment, raising the possibility that the pilots' lives would be spared in a propaganda show...
...primary goal of the war on poverty-to keep the Negro quiet-stems from political motives, not from a humanitarian desire to improve the lot of the poor. Negroes realize this, and this is why they are rebelling against Shriver and his $20,000-a-year...
...made Vietnam in Turmoil undoubtedly intended it to be "humanitarian," and although the narration favors the American and Saigon governments, the photography does not consciously try to justify the war. But because the film does not treat the war as one made by men, for real and imagined reasons, with real and terrifying effects, it misses the most important and neglected events which are happening in Vietnam. The film allows the audience to react to the torture and the blood with abstract shock, as it might to a primitive ritual, and thereby encourages the illusion that we are not really...