Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China continued to attack the United States yesterday, with the Beijing Daily saying the United States, with its discrimination against blacks and other minorities, has no right to condemn China's human rights record...
...brother, Mr. Sarcasm himself, kept to the political humour. "If Israel treats Palestinians like El Al treates its passengers, then we're talking serious human rights violations here," he said...
...still a major hurdle for gay men and women, critics insist. But they are most riled by the suggestion that gays need to tone down and blend in: that would slash at the heart of the gay- rights movement, they charge. Says Sherrie Cohen of the Fund for Human Dignity: "We're for embracing diversity and for protecting the civil rights of anyone who is perceived as 'different.' " Toby Marotta, a sociologist in San Francisco, finds the book's thesis the same "homophile argument used before Stonewall and abandoned afterward." Some gays believe, too, that the conservative approach may actually...
...Public Awareness Project has run advertisements in the L.A. Weekly and the Pasadena/Altadena Weekly. One of them shows a mother, her gay daughter and her partner embracing happily. Reads the headline: I'M PROUD OF MY LESBIAN DAUGHTER. In New York City last month, the Fund for Human Dignity unveiled a model national campaign that would feature gay-rights supporters in 60-second TV spots called "Stonewall Minutes." In one sample spot, attorney Thomas Stoddard of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund declares that "the days when gay people could never be themselves, when gay issues were never discussed...
...Japan has shown the capacity to deal forcefully with problems when the national will is clear and strong. When the people became alarmed in the 1970s about the dangers that air pollution and toxic wastes pose to human health, Japan developed antipollution policies and technologies that in many cases surpass U.S. standards. The country's extensive program of garbage recycling is a model for all industrial nations. If Japan decides to guard the environment around the world with this kind of care, then the island nation might turn its critics into admirers...