Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talked to us about poverty and ghettoes and trying to give people a chance. He told us what we could do and what our government could do, but wasn't doing, to help the poor...
...engaged in a noble cause--trying to feed the hungry." Sen. Ted Kennedy said, "Mickey Leland died as he lived, on a mission of mercy and hope for victims of poverty, injustice, racism and hunger. Wherever suffering people existed on our planet, Mickey Leland wanted to be there to help. He represented not only the people of Houston, but the best in America and all humanity...
...responding to critics who charged he didn't care about domestic concerns, Leland said "I am as much a citizen of this world as I am of my country. To hell with those people who are critical of what I am able to do to help save peoples' lives. I don't mean to sound hokey, but I grew up on a Christian ethic which says we are supposed to help the least of our brothers...
That's why he was going back to Ethiopia for the second time this year-- to save more lives. For him, there were no domestic concerns or foreign concerns, there were only human concerns. These human concerns drew his attention, to fix, to solve, to alleviate, to help...
...Greek Cypriot government that the works had been stripped from a small village church on the Turkish- controlled side of the island and illegally offered for sale on the international art market. Said Archbishop Chrysostomos of the Cyprus Church: "This just decision by the American court will help end the illegal marketing of looted archaeological items worldwide." Museum directors expect the decision to set an important precedent for regulating the antiquities market...