Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wording of the referendum places all the blame on Israel, yet the conflict has involved violence on two sides. The referendum singles out Israel for human rights violations that are routinely ignored in other beneficiaries of U.S. aid dollars. The referendum paints a picture of Palestinians eager to negotiate a peace settlement; yet Palestinians have not even renounced terrorism to show that they are willing to come to the table...
...cannot back Israel's human rights violations, but we will not support cutting off aid. Such a move would leave. Israel vulnerable, and because Israel is America's only loyal democratic ally in the Mideast, it would ultimately leave the U.S. vulnerable, as well...
Mark Schlesinger, assistant director of the Center for Health and Human Resources Policy at the Kennedy School and a health policy adviser to Dukakis, says that both candidates' fears of the budget deficit and the voters' unwillingness to pay higher taxes have led to "borderline deceptive" proposals...
...than Proposition 102, which would abruptly shift the state away from the policies that have put California in the forefront of the fight against AIDS. It would make compulsory what has always been voluntary: the reporting and tracking of people who have had intimate contact with carriers of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS...
...passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients, says he backs 102 because "we have a duty to know whether we have a fatal disease coursing through our veins, and we have a duty not to transmit it to another human being...