Word: fronti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These courageous doctors were all volunteers and members of an extraordinary Paris-based medical organization called Médecins Sans Frontières-literally, doctors without borders. Created in 1971 by a handful of idealistic young French physicians who had served as volunteers in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war, M.S.F. membership has since grown to nearly 750 physicians and paramedics of more than a dozen nationalities, including Americans. Their basic credo: to offer medicine's healing hand to any part of the world where it may suddenly be needed...