Word: harkness
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...group, dubbed Harvard Against Repression of the Kurds (HARK), began meeting last Wednesday in reaction to recent reports detailing the horrors of the Kurdish exodus from Iraq. Millions of Kurds are streaming into neighboring Iran and Turkey in search of food and shelter and a safe haven from the brutal civil war that is tearing apart the country...
...press release to be issued soon HARK declares that the suffering of the Kurds is "a moral crisis for all humankind, and that the world community must extend aid to the Kurdish refugees...
Members of the group interviewed yesterday emphasized that HARK would limit its agenda to humanitarian aid and avoid political posturing...
They said they felt that by avoiding political issues such as Kurdish nationalism and U.S. military intervention, HARK can generate the "broadest support base possible...