Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was former President Gerald Ford in Manhattan, picking up an honorary doctor of laws degree from New York Law School and a humanitarian award from the American Diabetes Association-and, between laurels, lambasting his successor. The Carter Administration's economic policy is "inadequate and misdirected," Ford told a news conference, and called for further cuts in federal spending to slow inflation...
...previous marriage) were allowed to witness the trial. During recesses, they briefed newsmen and sympathizers outside. Irina, describing the proceedings as a circus, said that her husband did not deny giving the monitor committee's documents to Western journalists. But he insisted that he did so for humanitarian reasons, to bring Soviet practice in line with Moscow's pledges at Helsinki. Orlov sarcastically asked the judges: "Is it a crime to meet foreign correspondents?" According to his wife, he was constantly interrupted by "spectators," hand-picked by the authorities, who shouted: "Traitor." "You're lying...
...most humanitarian science. It involves observing things and making hypotheses, not just plugging things into a formula," Danguole J. Spakevicius '81, who will concentrate in Biology, said yesterday...
...some realistic thoughts, fully aware of your responsibilities, which I respect ... I am considered a political prisoner and being tried, as president of the Christian Democrats, for my responsibilities of the last 30 years ... Weigh your actions carefully in order to avoid further evil... In the given circumstances, besides humanitarian reasons, what becomes apparent is the reason of state. Most of all this reason of state means that in my present condition I find myself under full and uncontrolled domination. There is the risk that I will be induced to talk in a manner that could be dangerous...
Virtually every aid proposal within the State Department is routed through a newly created Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That unit is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Patricia Derian, 49, a combative and articulate civil rights activist from Mississippi. Derian has traveled to 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe to explain Administration policy and inspect local conditions. She and eight deputies make sure that the human rights performance of every would-be recipient of U.S. aid is taken into account before a grant, loan or sale is approved...