Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government pay for it." As the debate warmed up, Hyde tossed out one of his favorite lines: "There are 1 million children who are thrown away like Kleenex because someone thinks that they are not as valuable as a snail darter." Hyde brushed aside all counterarguments. "Taking a human life with the taxpayers' money is abhorrent," he said, "and I intend to use the political process to stop...
...Malaysians presumably were also trying to shock the West into belated recognition of a human tragedy that has global dimensions. In Southeast Asia today, there are perhaps 360,000 Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and the total could easily double by the end of the year. In the midst of their squabbling over what to do about the energy crisis, leaders of the seven industrial democracies at the Tokyo summit issued a joint pledge to provide more aid to the refugees. President Carter announced that the U.S. would double, to 14,000 a month, the number of Indo-chinese refugees...
...refugees on welfare has steadily declined. According to the study, 71% of the families now have incomes of at least $800 a month. But for the boat people, all that lies in the distant future. The most they can expect now is a sort of least common denominator of human life: a stretch of sand on which to beach a leaky boat, and the prospect, however remote, of a new life in an alien land...
During his first 2½-hour talk with Park, Carter broached the delicate topic of human rights, an area in which South Korea has been severely criticized. At a state dinner hosted by the South Korean President, Carter praised the country's economic progress but added that "this achievement can be matched by similar progress through the realization of basic human aspirations in political and human rights." Under a series of draconian "emergency decrees" enacted in the early 1970s in the name of national security, the Korean government has sweeping powers of arrest, detention, search and seizure. Universities, radio...
Aron has marshaled a huge arsenal of facts to prove that the U.S.S.R has lagged behind the West in productivity, living standards, scientific progress and human rights. His summary: "If the virtues of an economic regime are measured by its capacity to answer the wishes of the population, organize the rational allocation of resources and efficiently produce the goods necessary to the physical and moral well-being of individual people, the Soviet experience remains to this day the most spectacular failure in history...