Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on Cambodia [Nov. 21] made me wonder what happened to all of the people who screamed "genocide" at American activities in Southeast Asia designed to prevent the type of atrocities currently being committed by the Pol Pot regime. Our human rights campaign has to date been highly selective, directed primarily against governments of the right while leaving left-leaning regimes almost completely alone. Talk about the old double standard...
...pile on the floor. The printed pages, produced at the rate of 700 an hour, would later be laboriously collated, bound by hand, and delivered to readers of Opinia, an underground monthly published by the dissident group RUCH (the initials in Polish stand for Movement for the Defense of Human and Civil Rights...
...great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This...
...recently become a staple in literature, art, drama and film...Millions sense the pathology that pervades the air, but fail to understand its roots. These roots lie not in this or that political doctrine, still less in some mystical core of despair or isolation presumed to inhere in the 'human condition.' Nor do they lie in science, technology, or legitimate demands for social change. They are traceable, instead, to the uncontrolled, non-selective nature of our lunge into the future...into superindustrialism...
...must take total responsibility for saving the human race onto your own shoulders. Every waking minute you must fight against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Nothing else matters," Helen Caldicott, a leading authority on the carcinogenic effects of nuclear power told a small audience at the Harvard Lutheran Church last night...