Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...limitations on strong Helsinki principles like the "freer movement of peoples." The U.S. proposed the airing of such topics for some six weeks. After that, the conference would take up new proposals on the Soviets' pet topic of disarmament. The Soviets' timetable would have limited discussion of human rights and issues like Afghanistan to a week...
...work of the conference began with a series of Western speeches that confounded Soviet hopes of stemming a tide of condemnation. Delegate after delegate castigated Moscow for its repressive policy on human rights and for the occupation of Afghanistan. The U.S. spokesman, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, was tough. Of Afghanistan he said: "The Soviet invasion cast a dark shadow over East-West relations which no meeting, no pronouncement-nothing, in fact, but the total withdrawal of Soviet troops-can dispel." Bell went on to denounce "brutal repression" against such Soviet dissidents as Yuri Orlov, the chairman of the Moscow...
Adding to Moscow's discomfiture was a surge of human rights activism directly inspired by the Madrid conference. Some 8,000 scientists from 44 non-Communist countries broke relations with Soviet scientific organizations to protest the persecution of Soviet colleagues. In seven Soviet cities, 139 Jewish dissidents began a three-day hunger strike, while 100 others crowded into Moscow's Supreme Soviet building demanding to emigrate to Israel. Exiles from the U.S.S.R. converged upon Madrid to hold press conferences detailing repression at home. Outside the Palace of Congresses, Maris Kirsons, a 39-year-old Latvian-born Lutheran minister...
...several days, then hemorrhage from the nose, mouth and intestine. Depending on the particular type of hemorrhagic fever, up to 90% of victims die. Last year such fevers claimed more than a thousand lives. The viruses live in animals apparently without causing any symptoms, then are passed to human beings. In Lassa fever, the organism lives in a particular type of rat that infests rural dwellings in West Africa. It spreads to villagers through water or food contaminated by the rodents' urine. In Marburg and Ebola fever, the animal host is still unknown. What makes these diseases particularly grim...
...redwood forest high above California's Monterey Bay (students quickly dubbed the resort-like U.C.S.C. "Uncle Charley's Summer Camp"). Another was Santa Cruz's remarkable educational mission. Clark Kerr, longtime president of California's statewide university, had conceived Santa Cruz as a quiet, human-sized island within the state's gargantuan system. It was built around a collection of intimate colleges for students and faculty, as at Oxford. To Kerr's unexceptionable dream were added other more radical ideas in tune with the rebellious '60s. One campus house, Kresge College, was briefly...