Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plight of Gifted Children What does it say about the future of the U.S. when school districts like that in McHenry County, Ill. [April 23], spend $700 more on each handicapped child than on each gifted one? Although it makes us appear humanitarian, it also indicates dangerous shortsightedness...
Most of his Texas colleagues remember Yazdi as "pleasant, humanitarian and a good scientist." They were unaware of his political activities, which included helping to organize several anti-Shah Iranian student organizations in the U.S. From time to time he visited Khomeini, who was in exile in Iraq from 1964 until late 1978, when he was expelled and moved to France. Yazdi's wife and several of their six children still live in Houston. Last week his wife said that she would remain a U.S. citizen even if her husband does...
Some influential Americans, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, are appalled by this attitude toward an exiled ruler who was a staunch defender of U.S. interests during his years in power. The Shah's friends argue that he should be allowed into the country on humanitarian grounds, and that a superpower like the U.S. should not be so concerned about the feelings of the unstable government in Tehran...
...lofty missions can produce down-to-earth results. As the early reaction to Carter's multibillion-dollar pledge in the Middle East showed last week, the nation is willing enough to assist other peoples if there is a reasonable promise that the investment will produce political or humanitarian benefits. -Frank Trippett
...Smith is losing and we are saying to the Americans 'don't make the mistake of supporting the losing horse,'" he said, adding that if the U.S. will not provide the Front with arms it should offer humanitarian assistance...