Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been A Hard Day's Night for John Lennon in his four-year battle against deportation from the U.S. because of a drug conviction in Britain. Things took a turn for the better when Lennon got a temporary suspension of his case on humanitarian grounds: Wife Yoko Ono's pregnancy. Last week, on the eve of Lennon's 35th birthday, his ordeal finally ended; a court of appeals barred immigration officials from deporting the ex-Beatle. Said the jubilant Lennon: "It's a great birthday gift from America for me, Yoko and the baby." Two days...
...October visit to Moscow by French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Moscow may also have been embarrassed by the attention the affair was attracting in the West, where it was being viewed as a test of whether the Soviets intend to live up to the "humanitarian" clauses of the Helsinki declaration signed by Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev last month. One clause of the agreement requires the Soviet Union to "examine favorably and on the basis of humanitarian considerations requests for exit or entry permits" for Soviet citizens and foreigners who want to marry...
...feel that the Congress, in passing the amendment, performed an act of historic significance in the best democratic and humanitarian traditions of the American people. I reject the argument that the amendment constitutes intervention in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R., which has ratified the right to emigrate. The freedom to leave is important to those citizens who remain behind since [the option to emigrate] serves as a guarantee of their civil rights...
Surely the West can bring itself to make some small, temporary sacrifices by putting pressure on the two Achilles' heels of the Soviet system-its pocketbook and its prestige. I hope that all Western European countries and international humanitarian organizations (not just Jewish ones) will close ranks and offer a common front to Soviet countermaneuvers on this issue...
...Humanitarian programs, such as unemployment compensation, Social Security and food stamps, prop up purchasing power. This maintains the ability of consumers to buy?and the ability of businessmen to resist price cutting?even while joblessness is rising...