Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This mystery of leadership has been pondered since our beginnings as a nation, but we are still not sure of the ingredients. Why did Herbert Hoover, a brilliant engineer and a humanitarian of inflexible integrity, fail, while Roosevelt, imprecise and conspiratorial, succeeded so well in "being President...
...stupidity of the majority of the members of the Legislature is disturbing but not surprising. I have learned that decision makers, like our group of legislators, evade thinking for themselves by relying on precedents and old residual public feeling. I have learned not to expect well-considered, sensible and humanitarian reasoning from intelligent people. I have learned this lesson best at Harvard. From personal experience (and from the employment of those special "antennae" that Ann Landers insists all we homosexuals have) I make an honest estimate that the number of gay men undergraduates at Harvard is between...
Palestinian Legitimate Rights It implicitly recognizes that solution of the Palestinian issue requires political measures in addition to the humanitarian task of finding homes for refugees...
...Security and Cooperation congregated in the corridors of starkly modern Sava Conference Center last week, much more was involved than a club reunion of old friends. They were meeting to assess how the signatory nations have complied with the "Three Baskets" of the agreement-military security, economic cooperation and humanitarian exchanges. It will not be an easy task. Even before the meeting began, there were fears that it would become a bitter political wrangle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over human rights...
...picked up the tab. By the luck of the draw, both delivered their opening remarks on the same day. Confident and assured, Vorontsov boasted that the new Soviet constitution that had just been adopted embodied all the basic principles of the Helsinki accord. He pointedly warned that "cooperation in humanitarian and other fields" is only possible if all countries refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. That same afternoon, Goldberg delivered his speech, which had been much revised by Administration policy planners. The final approved version did not clatter over the embassy Teletype from Washington until...