Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brokers and dealers who are selling each other contracts to deliver goods months in the future at a fixed price-when the real market price may be higher, or lower. Nerve-racking enough, but the goods they are buying and selling are extremely volatile, their value subject to human whims, storms in the farm belt, or a boost in interest rates in Washington. Most of the trading takes place in traditional commodities, such as wheat and corn, but in recent years the Board of Trade has added futures in U.S. Treasury bonds and the enticing "Ginnie Maes" (as the Government...
...somewhat similar linkage between politics and trade has also been imposed occasionally on transfers of technology. After the Kremlin last summer tried and convicted Human Rights Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, for example, Carter strongly condemned the action and blocked the sale of a computer to Moscow. Also canceled were several scheduled trips of high-level U.S. delegations to the Soviet Union. The President decreed, moreover, that transfers of advanced oil technology to the Soviet Union would have to be approved by the White House. His aim was to pressure the Kremlin to treat dissidents with more leniency; so far there...
...Administration, in fact, has largely abandoned the rhetoric that originally characterized its human rights campaign. It gained little for the U.S. while infuriating the Soviets and exacerbating the superpower relationship. To Moscow, Carter's words were evidence that the Administration was anti-Soviet. This apparently dismayed Carter, who seemed to be puzzled that the Kremlin did not believe him when he declared that his human rights drive was also directed at other nations and not just at the Soviet Union...
...President, moreover, felt that he had a right to criticize Moscow because it had signed the 1975 Helsinki accord. That agreement, among other things, calls for respect for human rights and a freer exchange of ideas and information between East and West. But Brezhnev interprets Helsinki very selectively. In his interview, he ignores the accord's provisions dealing with human rights and greater freedom while stressing the section that gives each signatory the right "to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems...
...from his chair. He sent out for sandwiches to feed the reporters, and went on and on. He denounced the new Hanoi-backed regime in Phnom-Penh, but he was frank to admit his differences with Pol Pot. "I do not approve of his internal policies, his violation of human rights," Sihanouk said. "I would like to see my people have the right to their pagodas, to travel freely, to love and to be loved, to be able to see their wives and to be with their wives and children and not be separated ... These are basic rights of humanity...