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...criticism by some independent relief agencies that UNHCR is not aggressive enough in protecting refugees in the countries to which they have fled. "UNHCR is the hostage of the host countries," says one top relief official. "The agency is much too timid about protecting, let alone acting upon flagrant violations of the refugees' rights." Among such violations: Thailand's return of 60,000 Cambodians to famine-struck Kampuchea in 1979, though most flooded back within days, and Hong Kong's repatriation of 10,000 Chinese who escaped from mainland China to the crown colony in the past...
Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, a member of the Judiciary Committee who had strongly opposed an unmodified extension of the law, changed his mind after these sessions. Said he: "I listened to witness after witness testify that voting rights violations are as flagrant today as they were 16 years...
...University is not ignoring the issue: This fall the Faculty will consider a proposal setting up a committee to advise Dean Rosovsky on such matters. However, Harvard trusts its faculty and is unlikely to take more stringent action unless faced with a flagrant violation of academic ethics. Until and unless this occurs, the University will rely on unwritten rules and the individual consciences of its professors. And the small companies will continue to thrive around Harvard Square...
...Publisher Jacobo Timerman, 58, details the sadism, brutality and anti-Semitic abuse he suffered during 30 months of imprisonment in Argentina between 1977 and 1979. His recently published book is also a devastating indictment of Argentina's junta, which the Council on Hemispheric Affairs has called the most flagrant violator of human rights in Latin America...
...braggart, of course, has always been present on the American scene, and boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...