Word: humanitarian
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Last week the Premier added to his reputation for springing surprises. First, his government announced that it would extend to Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza the welfare benefits and child labor laws that cover Israeli citizens. It could certainly be argued that Jerusalem's aims were humanitarian rather than political, as the government stoutly insisted. But the move also looked very much like a deliberate extension of Israeli authority over territories that Begin not only considers to be part of Israel, but insists on calling by their biblical names, Judea and Samaria...
Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...
Captain Tadmor's humanitarian gesture called attention last week to the plight of some of the world's most neglected refugees. His 66 sea-weary passengers were Vietnamese-the most recent group of perhaps 300,000 refugees who have fled South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos since the Communist conquest. About 145,000 South Vietnamese were brought to the U.S. by American sea-and airlift after the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon collapsed. The 90,000 Laotians who have slipped over the border to Thailand and an estimated 7,000 Cambodians live in wretched refugee camps...
...years ago, a leading Afrikaans writer, Leon Rousseau, was savaged by fellow Afrikaners when he called for "penance" and a "national admission of guilt." Yet this spring the Afrikaner Writers Guild adopted a resolution declaring itself against "a dispensation in which the majority of our population is denied humanitarian and basic rights." In a new interracial group called Women for Peace, Afrikaners have started a continuing dialogue with blacks, discussing their problems and busing in children from the black townships to play with their own. Another group of women, most of them white, called the Black Sash, has demonstrated against...
Private American organizations have been permitted to send $4 million in humanitarian aid, and the U.S.-supported International Band for Reconstruction and Development has lent Vietnam $44 million, but the U.S. government continues to ignore its obligation to send direct reconstruction aid to Vietnam...