Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, low-income people and members of minority groups are the most frequent targets of misguided researchers. Regulatory legislation is necessary to curb the use of human guinea pigs. Researchers who exploit human subjects in their investigations ought by law to be held accountable for their crimes...
...scuba diving in the giant Truk Lagoon, which is littered with the hulks of Japanese warships sunk in World War II. Other groups will visit the headwaters of the Amazon, the Ruwenzori (Mountains of the Moon) Range between Uganda and the Republic of Zaire, the New Zealand and New Guinea highlands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef...
Poussaint cited the predominantly black composition of what he called the "guinea pigs" in his contention that human subjects are often drawn from low-income populations...
...admits that "some of the prisoners do want it." And not only for the money involved, or for a possible break from parole boards. A major attraction in many cases, says Schwartz, is that "for a while you are treated as a human being, even though you are a guinea...
Cabral's murder robbed Africa of its most responsible rebel leader. Educated in Lisbon and trained as an agronomist, Cabral founded his Independence Party in 1956, after he became convinced that the Portuguese would never leave Guinea without being pushed. Even so, PAIGC did not turn to violence until the early 1960s, when it initiated hit-and-run attacks from bases in neighboring Guinea and Senegal. "We fight," Cabral once said, "only to persuade Portugal that it is in her interest to reach a political agreement...