Word: adoptionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Applications and plans for the adoption of these babies have been in process for as long as two years. It would appear that the only change is acceleration of the process, created by the acceleration of the crumbling of the defenses of South Viet Nam, which stems from the refusal...
For all the good intentions that fueled it, the airlift of orphans from Indochina continued to cause problems. Last week, after 28 Cambodian children arrived at Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International Airport without the proper papers indicating their suitability for adoption, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered the rescue...
The adoption agencies that participated insisted that they had acted properly. Said Bob Chamness, director of Holt Children's Services in Saigon: "I know for a fact that no VIP children were on any of our flights." In the U.S., Pat Dempsey of Friends of All Children, which brought...
Among the optional plans which the Quad Committee discussed were adoption of the Yale housing plan, in which incoming freshmen would be assigned to a House for four years, and conversion of Yard dormitories into four-year dormitories.
The meeting, which its organizers said was "a practical attempt to continue our American Evolution in a desirable manner" concluded with the adoption of a series of resolutions on the future of the world and on the direction of policy efforts to insure that future.