Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolting, highhanded, indefensible action of the "Imperial" Russian government in Czechoslovakia is a clear, unequivocal mandate to the U.S. to move at once on Cuba. Not only that, it proves to every reasonable human being how wise, how farseeing, how absolutely necessary is our policy in Southeast Asia. Was ever a belabored, pummeled, meanly assailed President so completely vindicated, so dramatically proved right...
Hope in Chaos. The International Commission of Jurists has branded this systematic annihilation of Tibetan life as "genocide." Three times the United Nations has censured Peking for "violating fundamental human rights and freedom." The Dalai Lama told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who journeyed to the god-king's exile in the Indian Himalayas at Dharmsala, that "Tibet still exists despite all the Chinese have done. But I don't know for how long. Another 20 years like this and there will be no Tibet...
...extensive research, first developed the evidence that forced thalidomide's withdrawal from sale. Dr. Widukind Lenz was a pediatrician in Hamburg when he began to study the effects of the drug. Now 49, he has moved to Münster as director of the Institute of Human Genetics...
...crossexamination, defense attorneys hammered away at the theme that causality cannot be proved by statistics. They insisted that so long as no one knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism...
...after they reach their prime . . . I see an America of great cultural and educational opportunity for all its people." Adlai Stevenson, in 1952: "I see an America where no man fears to think as he pleases, or say what he thinks . . . I see an America as the horizon of human hopes...