Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some went to "freedom schools," conducted voluntarily by striking teachers in private homes. Others marched outside the houses of school board members, chanting "We want school!" Toward the end, about 70 students staged an all-night sit-in at MacArthur High. But many high school students simply slept late, got bored, or found part-time jobs. Some went off to private schools...
During his 195 days of freedom, Thevis rented an apartment in Summerville, S.C. From a diary that an FBI expert says is in Thevis' handwriting, agents learned that he picked up clothes and funds from his Atlanta home within a week after his escape. So far, investigators have recovered $500,000 from five safe deposit boxes that were rented by Thevis under aliases...
...second important underlying premise is the notion that individuals have a right to expect certain services from government. In America, to depend too much on government is seen as a weakness and an inhibitor of freedom. At the simplest level, the logical development of this attitude ensures the freedom to starve or to die of ill-health, through inability to pay the doctor's bills. There is certainly a relationship between the values of a society and the form of its healthcare delivery system. Perhaps Europeans have less cultural and ideological inhibitions in allocating certain tasks to the state...
...member nations, and exchanges lightly edited government press releases among subscribers. Roger Tatarian has proposed a joint multinational news agency that would concentrate on national-development stories. A task force of the New York-based 20th Century Fund including Third World journalists has endorsed the idea. The World Press Freedom Committee, a group of 32 international publishers and broadcasters, has raised about half of the $1 million it plans to spend training Third World journalists and technicians. American UNESCO Delegation Chief John Reinhardt, who heads the Government's International Communications Agency, this month promised the nonaligned nations a package...
What the West has yet to make clear to them is that press freedom need not be incompatible with national development, that government-dictated news is no more believable in the Third World than elsewhere and that any "new world information order" should be blessed with fewer government curbs on the flow of news, not more. As the 20th Century Fund's task force concluded: "The practices of a free press may be erratic, even in the West, but the aspirations of freedom should ultimately serve to unite the West and the Third World...