Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs. But no country in history has ever won a war without keeping some of the spoils. With victory, the appetite of the Israelis has increased, fostering widespread Arab fears that they are indeed bent on expansion and a little neighborhood imperialism. Some diplomats believe that it would help if the Israelis at least stated their willingness in principle to withdraw from the occupied territories, provided that their other legitimate security needs were met. It would also help the situation if they made a substantive recognition of the plight of Palestinian refugees...
...interrupted by the Florentine floods of 1966, which devastated his retreat-as well as two-thirds of the design's original plaster. Undaunted, Lipchitz began anew. He was on hand to see his work unveiled. "Peace on Earth is my prayer for peace," he said. "If it will help us bring peace, then it is good sculpture; if it does not, it is bad sculpture...
Unhappily, those goals conflicted. To help minority group students, C.C.N.Y. admitted and gave special tutoring to less-qualified freshmen, but the numbers remained low. In April, 200 black and Puerto Rican students locked themselves inside the gates of the college's south campus. They wanted admissions policy to reflect the racial composition of the city's high schools, which are 45% nonwhite, compared with 12% at C.C.N.Y. They demanded control of faculty hiring and firing in the tutoring program, and a separate degree-granting school of black and Puerto-Rican studies. Backed by the politically appointed board...
...real home, I have nothing. But I have great faith in the divine structure of the church, and I want to be just a priest in Africa. And if, despite my wishes, my presence here seems extraordinary to the outside world, then I want to profit from this to help the people here...
...Canada's $50,000 Royal Bank Award for humanitarian achievement. Léger has earmarked the money for his center, for which he hopes to raise an additional $1,000,000 in Canada. He regards the center as a kind of beau geste that will inspire others to help Africa help itself. "I have always believed in symbolic action," says Léger. "One man cannot accomplish everything, but by symbolic action he can incite others to do things...