Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International Airport, U.S. Customs agents recently seized $50,000 in gold and 15 tons of merchandise, mostly small shipments of videocassette recorders, lawn chairs, cameras and even a video-game system. The intended destination: Viet Nam, which since 1975 has been on the U.S. embargo list for all but humanitarian goods. Yet no one was arrested. The raid, said a Customs spokesman, was meant only to "send a message to those who would blatantly violate...
...concerned about the fate of humanitarian management," said Ali. "The dean says the school's approach will not change, but I'm afraid the way of teaching will...
...minute video, titled "Building Peace in the Midst of War," features the experiences of a 14-member delegation from the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project. The group--including local video producer Carol Yourman--traveled to San Jose las Flores in June 1987 to bring the village humanitarian...
While many of the programs reaching the finals involved direct humanitarian aid, six of the winners focused on more efficient public service, according to K-School reports. The Computer-Assisted Report Entry system of the St. Louis police, for example, uses computers to reduce the time necessary for filing police reports by 80 percent...
...rabbis willing to bypass tradition? Some cite humanitarian reasons. Rabbi Fredric Dworkin of Leonia, N.J., first broke ranks 20 years ago, when an obese Jewish woman who had experienced difficulty finding a mate pleaded, "This might be my only chance at happiness." A more common argument is presented by Rabbi Richard Schachet, whose Chatsworth, Calif., synagogue consists almost entirely of the intermarried. "Every Jew who is turned away is a potential loss," he says. While opponents see intermarriages as a threat to Jewish survival, rabbis who perform them reason that the couples will wed anyway and a friendly approach...