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The volunteer medical movement is dominated by three Paris-based organizations -- Medecins sans Frontieres, Medecins du Monde and Aide Medicale Internationale -- whose aim is to bring medical assistance to troubled and neglected corners of the world, without regard to political orientation or government approval. The need these groups serve is...
As the horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right. When Nigerian forces closed in on the hospital where Kouchner was working, the doctors asked to evacuate their patients. The Red Cross ordered them to stay on the grounds that they would be safer in...
The decision to book a trip to the U.S. is a matter of dollars and sense: it is now as cheap for Europeans and Asians to head to America as it is for them to vacation much closer to home. Visiting the sun-splashed beaches of Okinawa costs a Tokyo...
The U. S. produced jazz music but it has little critical discrimination, no authoritative history of jazz. It has remained for Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book...