Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intimate reconsideration arrived on Broadway last week. This time the tale comes by way of Dickens. London's gaslit windows ring the circular seating. Tattered gray laundry sags from clotheslines all around. Turbulent street life spills into the aisles. Gloomy, angry and unjust Sweeney's world remains, but human connections now matter...
East Germany responded to the crisis with maximal rhetoric and minimal action. It trained much of the heat on West Germany, charging it with an "attempt to destabilize" East Germany. But the East German media also raged against Hungary, accusing it of "trading human lives for pieces of silver," a pointed suggestion that Hungary had swapped the refugees for hard West German currency. Two days after the border was thrown open, East Germany charged that Hungary was in "clear violation of legal treaties" and demanded that it stop letting the refugees through. Budapest angrily dismissed the charges and asserted that...
...upheld, while reformers said it was more important to meet international obligations, among them the 1975 Helsinki agreements and the U.N. convention on refugees. Imre Pozsgay, the party's pre-eminent reformer, told TIME, "We took the step that embraced the higher of the principles involved, that of human rights...
Last week the Smithsonian signed a landmark agreement with leaders of two national Indian organizations that both sides hope will help defuse the issue. The institution, which has 18,500 human remains and thousands of other burial artifacts, agreed to inventory its collection. Remains that can be clearly identified as belonging to an individual or a surviving tribe as well as all burial artifacts will be offered to the Native Americans for reburial. In return the Indians dropped their demand that the Smithsonian surrender all its remains, many of whose origins are unknown...
...University has consented to return an entire collection of skeletal remains of 550 Indians, most of them from the Ohlone tribe, to their descendants. Nonetheless, many curators and anthropologists are worried that a sweeping national policy would empty museums across the land. Scholars argue that preserved skeletons and other human artifacts, particularly those of great antiquity, provide essential information on problems ranging from the organization of tribal societies to the origin of certain diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis...