Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa's image. It could provide a precedent to hang like a sword of Damocles over other African leaders who openly support what, in effect, amounts to a blood lust." The U.S. has interceded with Congo President Joseph Mobutu to spare Tshombe's life, not only for humanitarian reasons but for fear that his execution might spark resentment, and perhaps even a new Congo revolt that could undermine Mobutu's regime. Such enlightened African leaders as the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Leopold Senghor of Senegal are known to oppose any execution as crude...
...nther, in fact, entered his career without benefit of even a high school degree. He was informally granted the title of "Doktor" in a Russian-run Czech prison camp, where, despite his own frostbite-caused amputations, he gradually took over treatment of the other German prisoners. It was a humanitarian impulse, prompted by the fact that the guards paid little attention to the prisoners' health. When he was released in 1946, Günther decided to retain the title. He added seven years to his age for credibility, said he had graduated from Prague University's medical school...
Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...
...policies of the Kiesinger government, in contrast to the policies of the Adenauer-Erhard era, are motivated by humanitarian, rather than political, considerations. The Kiesinger government does want reunification; but its proposals for negotiations are not primarily aimed at reunification. They are attempts to find ways to help the East German people...
Paul J. Hollander, assistant professor of Sociology, yesterday criticized the State Department for its treatment of Svetlana Stalin. In a letter to the New York Times, Hollander accused the State Department of giving "considerations of political expediency ... primacy over humanitarian principles...