Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oscar Orellana Garcia, a representative of the human rights arm of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--which has fought a civil war in El Salvador throughout this decade--said U.S. support should be restricted to humanitarian aid and conditional upon the resolution of the country's political turmoil...
This commitment could include, on the part of the United States, a withdrawal of all aid, "humanitarian" or not, to the Contras in Nicaragua. It could include, on the part of the Soviet Union, an already likely debt-forgiveness program for Cuba and other poor debtor nations...
Ironically, the U.S. is finding it easier these days to deal with Nicaragua. Late last week the White House announced a "gentleman's agreement" with Congress to allot $4.5 million a month in humanitarian aid to the Nicaraguan contras for the next eleven months while diplomats work at pushing the Sandinista regime toward democracy. The bargain ends, for the moment at least, a fractious eight-year battle between the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Executive Branch over how to handle Central America. The product of intense lobbying by Secretary of State James Baker, the agreement to fund the contras...
...disease and pestilence. Once it becomes possible to eradicate a gene that causes a fatal disorder, and thus keep it from passing to future generations, it will be criminal not to do so. As director of the Human Genome Project, James Watson contends that the research has a crucial humanitarian mission. Says he: "The object should not be to get genetic information per se, but to improve life through genetic information...
...however, indicates something more important--Harvard's policy matters. Tutu believes the University's divestment would send the message that reaping profits from a system of institutional racism is immoral. He also wants to expose the lie that selective divestment policies, such as Harvard's, can be fair and humanitarian...