Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private American organizations have been permitted to send $4 million in humanitarian aid, and the U.S.-supported International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has lent Vietnam $44 million, but the U.S. government continues to ignore its obligation to send direct reconstruction aid to Vietnam...
Fassbinder is mainly a humanitarian. He is interested in the banality, not the poverty, of the proletariat. His politics consist almost solely in enunciating that banality and its causes for a politically naive audience. In that respect, Mother Kusterstells a typical Fassbinder story. A man has gone berserk in a factory, killing his boss's son and then killing himself. The press exploits his family and distorts the picture of the man. His wife (Mother Kusters, played by Brigitte Mira), deserted by her children, seeks comfort where she can find it. First, with the Thalmanns, a couple of armchair communists...
Last week the State Department diffidently issued its first, 143-page roundup, based on reports from U.S. embassies and prepared by staffers working with James Wilson, State's coordinator for human rights and humanitarian affairs...
Rather than addressing the problem, the United States has decreased humanitarian aid to third world countries by about 60 per cent in the last fifteen years. As Jimmy Carter said in his radio chat last Sunday afternoon, the United States only devotes three-tenths of one per cent of its GNP to foreign aid. This figure is substantially less than corresponding figures for France, Germany, and England. And although Carter has claimed all along that he has a deep concern for those suffering in other nations, his priorities seem to be similar to Ford's in the area of foreign...
Wilson said yesterday that prisons are "seriously overcrowded" with people who have committed violent crimes. He called an expansion of the number of prisons "humanitarian" because it would prevent the "lack of privacy, the bestiality and the violence" in the present system...